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  • Bioethics

    New article on managing inherent conflicts in human subjects research

    “In Plain Sight: A Solution to a Fundamental Challenge in Human Research” Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, Forthcoming (Lois Shepard and Margaret Foster Riley, UVA) From the abstract: The conflict of interest created when…

    New article on managing inherent conflicts in human subjects research

  • 2012 Election

    Upcoming Event – Health Care Reform: A View from Both Sides, 9/25/12

    Tuesday, September 25, 2012 Austin Hall, Classroom 111 Harvard Law School 12-1:30PM If you’re going to be in Cambridge next week, please join us for a special off-the-record debate on American health care reform, moderated…

    Upcoming Event – Health Care Reform: A View from Both Sides, 9/25/12

  • Bioethics

    Treatment of Subject Injury: Fair is Fair

    By Suzanne M. Rivera, Ph.D. Of all the protections provided in the Common Rule to safeguard the rights and welfare of research participants, there’s one glaring omission: treatment of study-related injuries. Our current regulatory apparatus…

    Treatment of Subject Injury: Fair is Fair

  • Abortion

    Conscientious Actions and Refusals

    Great new Perspectives piece by Lisa Harris out in NEJM on the need to recognize that conscience can compel action, not only refusals to provide certain types of care (including abortion).  Elizabeth Sepper makes a similar…

    Conscientious Actions and Refusals

  • Bioethics

    California Surrogacy Bill Reacts to Lawyer Bad Acts

    [posted on behalf of Judy Daar] Mishaps in assisted reproductive technologies (ART) breed public outcries and legislative hand-wringing.  It is no wonder a 2011 San Diego-based ART debacle dubbed “an international baby-selling ring” caught the attention…

    California Surrogacy Bill Reacts to Lawyer Bad Acts

  • Abortion

    Is the Self Defense Exception Consistent with the Belief that a Fetus is a Person?

    In Glenn Cohen’s first post on this blog, he questioned whether Mitt Romney’s position on abortion was coherent with respect to the rape and incest exception, but did not question the self-defense exception itself.  He…

    Is the Self Defense Exception Consistent with the Belief that a Fetus is a Person?

  • FDA

    Is FDA’s 2013 Budget At Risk?

    By Patrick O’Leary Back in February, President Obama’s FY 2013 budget authorized $4.5 billion for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), about $2 billion of which was to come from user fees, the fees paid…

    Is FDA’s 2013 Budget At Risk?

  • Bioethics

    Sunder on Patents and Access to Drugs

    By Frank Pasquale Last week, the blog Concurring Opinions featured a symposium on Madhavi Sunder’s new book, From Goods to a Good Life: Intellectual Property and Global Justice. A chapter relevant to health law scholars…

    Sunder on Patents and Access to Drugs

  • Alvin Roth

    New Books on Markets for Organs

    Over at Market Design, Al Roth has drawn our attention to two new books addressing organ markets: A Market in Organs  (in Kidney Transplantation: Challenging the Future) Miran Epstein  and Matching Organs with Donors: Legality and…

    New Books on Markets for Organs

  • Publications

    Yale’s Friday Newsletter – 09/14/12

    Here’s this week’s newsletter from the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, with the latest bioethics news, scholarship, opinion, and other announcements.  Take a look!

    Yale’s Friday Newsletter – 09/14/12