By Nicole Huberfeld Two vaguely related thoughts on the future of the ACA. First, when I present my co-authored Medicaid post-mortem paper forthcoming in B.U. L. Rev., I find I am frequently asked “what could…
By David Orentlicher While it is important for people to express their wishes about end-of-life care in advance, a court case in Hawaii reminds us that advance directives do not always ensure that patient’s wishes…
By Katharine Van Tassel The University of Georgia School of Law seeks a tenure-track assistant professor to serve as the director of a to-be-created Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) Clinic, beginning the 2013 – 2014 academic year.…
By Hyeongsu Park and Kathy Wang In England, a High Court judge ruled that a profoundly brain damaged 3-year-old boy in foster care should not be given life support when his condition deteriorates, despite the…
By The Petrie-Flom Center It’s Friday again! Enjoy the Yale Friday Newsletter (edited for our readership), with lots of great items this week.
By Nicolas Terry Tim Jost, The Internal Revenue Service’s Implementation and Administration of the Democrat’s Health Care Law, SSRN/Hastings Center Report Leslie Francis, When Patients Interact with EHRs: Problems of Privacy and Confidentiality, SSRN/Houston Journal of…
by Jonathan J. Darrow On October 3, 2012, the FDA’s Division of Professional Drug Promotion issued an untitled letter to Genentech in connection with its cancer drug Tarceva. Tarceva (erlotinib) was approved in 2004 for…
Obamacare on Trial Book talk and panel discussion by Einer Elhauge, Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (and founding director of the Petrie-Flom Center) Panelists: I. Glenn Cohen, Petrie-Flom Center for Health…
By Arthur Caplan In his latest MSNBC column, Art Caplan addresses a different angle of the fungal meningitis outbreak: Many needlessly getting steroid injections for back pain, bioethicist says The quest for relief from pain…
By Katie Booth This November, Floridians will vote on whether to amend the Florida constitution “to prohibit laws or rules from compelling any person or employer to purchase, obtain, or otherwise provide for health care coverage.” Similar…
