By Hyeongsu Park and Kathy Wang [Ed. Note: We have a few weekly round-ups available here at Bill of Health (from Yale’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, and from Nic Terry‘s list of what’s worth reading…
By Nicolas Terry Chris Robertson, The Split Benefit: The Painless Way to Put Skin Back in the Healthcare Game, SSRN/Cornell Law Review Ellen Nolte & C. Martin McKee, In Amenable Mortality—Deaths Avoidable Through Health Care—Progress In The…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch Ok, so we’ll have a NEJM-heavy day today! But you’ve got to check out one more thing, statements from the presidential candidates on the future of American health care. This was the…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch Our friends over at the New England Journal of Medicine just alerted us to a new perspectives piece addressing the impact of cutting family planning funds in Texas (the piece was also…
By Wendy Parmet It’s easy to see the value of including scientists in public health law research teams; most public health lawyers lack the training to conduct rigorous empirical research. It may be harder to…
By Cansu Canca Last Wednesday, I went to Michael Sandel’s lecture introducing his new book What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. His talk focused on two main arguments: There should be certain…
By The Petrie-Flom Center This Monday, October 1, 2012 @ 6PM, our friends at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Harvard Kennedy School are hosting a panel on Health Care in 2013: Why the Race…
By Nadia N. Sawicki In 2010, Illinois issued an administrative rule requiring that pharmacies dispense all lawfully prescribed drugs, including emergency contraception, or face sanctions. Last week, an Illinois appellate court in Morr-Fitz v. Quinn…
Thanks to Pablo de Lora for pointing us to a new article from Bijan Fateh-Moghadam on the Cologne decision regarding male circumcision. From the article’s conclusion: Summing up, the Cologne Judgment misjudges the constitutional framework of…
By Jennifer Ibrahim, PhD, MPH An article by Julia Costich, MPA, JD, PhD, and Dana Patton, PhD, in the October 2012 edition of the American Journal of Public Health reveals the tip of the iceberg…
