By Erin Talati In the intensive care unit, almost every decision can be made into life or death. For some children whose parents are Jehovah’s Witnesses the need for a blood transfusion becomes quite literally…
by Nadia N. Sawicki The D.C. Circuit’s recent decision vacating the FDA’s graphic labeling requirements has prompted a flood of valuable commentary about compelled speech doctrine, including Richard Epstein’s, below. While analysis of the First…
Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology (ASU/ABA) is seeking submissions for a special symposium issue edited by James Hodge on the Intersection of Law, Science, and Policy to Protect the Public’s Health, to…
[posted on behalf of Art Caplan] Should a physician be held responsible if an elderly patient causes a car accident while driving? A Los Angeles jury recently decided that Dr. Arthur Daigneault was not responsible…
By Michele Goodwin For all the attention by legal scholars, doctors, and politicians to the global organ shortage—and particularly the crisis in the United States, relatively little is said about tissue demand and that supply…
Short notice, but… Alan Wertheimer will be presenting his draft paper “Why Is Consent a Requirement for Ethical Research?” tonight at the Health Law Policy and Bioethics Workshop at Harvard Law School. These workshops take…
By Nicolas Terry Keen observers of the Administration’s “meaningful use” subsidy program for electronic medical records (EMRs) will not have been surprised by the reaction of stakeholders to last week’s publication of the “Stage 2” regulations,…
On November 2 at Harvard Law School, the Petrie-Flom Center and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics will be co-sponsoring a day-long symposium organized by Dr. David Korn on institutional financial conflicts of interest in research…
The Greenwall Foundation has selected Bill of Health co-editor, Glenn Cohen, to receive a Faculty Scholar Award in Bioethics for 2012-2015. This career development award is intended to enable outstanding junior faculty members to carry out original research that will help…
We’re excited to introduce and welcome our first guest blogger of the Fall semester, Nadia Sawicki. (And note that we’ve already introduced a ton of other bloggers below – you can also get to their…
