By Nadia N. Sawicki Litigation challenging the PPACA contraception mandate continues, and last week’s decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri in O’Brien v. HHS brings the total number of…
By Nikola Biller Andorno The Kidney Transplantation Committee of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN)/United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) has put forward a proposal that would substantially revise the existing national allocation system…
By Scott Burris No, I mean it: this is a question to Bill of Health readers who know about the law on this topic. This week, a colleague handed me a palm card she’d been…
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 4:00pm Radcliffe Gymnasium 18 Mason Street Cambridge, MA Please join us for a presentation of the 2012-2013 Radcliffe Fellows Series. Bill of Health Co-Editor I. Glenn Cohen will discuss the growing phenomenon…
We’re pleased to introduce and welcome Nikola Biller-Adorno to our blogging community as an occasional contributor. Nikola directs the Institute of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She has been deputy editor of…
by Adriana Lee Benedict Earlier this year, the World Health Organization’s Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination (CEWG) issued a report calling for, inter alia, increased support for innovative pharmaceutical…
By Patrick O’Leary Looking back over last month’s health-related news, two articles published on The Atlantic’s website stand out to illustrate a tension that has received a great deal of focus in Medicare reform circles,…
Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 3 at 5:30 pm, Bill of Health co-editor I. Glenn Cohen will participate in a live national broadcast on Actionspeaksradio.org regarding Diamond v. Chakrabarty, the 1980 case that first established the right to patent life. For information…
by Suzanne M. Rivera, PhD For a variety of reasons, racial and ethnic minorities in the US do not participate in clinical research in numbers proportionate to their representation in the population. Although legitimate mistrust by…
Our colleagues at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, the Department of Government, and the FAS Dean’s Office at Harvard are sponsoring an exciting event next Thursday and Friday, October 11-12, 2012, in honor…
