By Cassie Chambers The addition of Paul Ryan to the Republican presidential ticket has brought the healthcare proposals of both parties to the forefront. To listen to the Sunday morning talk shows, you’d think the…
By Michelle Meyer In legal scholarship and education, innovation law and policy is virtually synonymous with intellectual property in general, and with patent law in particular. This is curious and, I think, misguided. We expend…
by Nir Eyal Yesterday, Boston public radio station WBUR interviewed a Massachusetts primary care physician who refuses to admit new obese patients. She claims that it’s because she lacks proper equipment, but she seems to have mixed motives. Earlier she had admitted…
Interesting decision (H/T Wall Street Journal Law Blog ) from the D. Mass ordering the state to pay for a sex change operation for a prisoner. I’ll have more to say on the case soon…
by Glenn Cohen As America’s attention focused on the Republican Convention and the Obama campaign tries to portray a “Republican War on Women” at the Democratic one, last week Mitt Romney tried to clarify his…
[posted on behalf of Richard Epstein] The entire question of the FDA’s tobacco regulation is likely to spur extended commentary, given the split of opinions between the D.C. Circuit, which knocked out the packaging labels by…
The Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School is in an exciting phase of expansion. One of our new initiatives is this blog, which we hope you’ll visit regularly for insightful commentary on current issues in health law…
Welcome to our blog! We just wanted to introduce ourselves as the editors and thank you for stopping by. We hope you’ll do so often. First, say hi to I. Glenn Cohen. Glenn is Professor at…
Next, meet Holly Fernandez Lynch (hlynch at law dot harvard dot edu). Holly is the Executive Director of the Petrie-Flom Center, where she was previously an academic fellow. Her scholarly work focuses on the ethics of human subjects…
Although our bloggers come from all over the place, Bill of Health is housed within the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School. So here’s a little but about us, in case you’re interested. The Center is entering…
