by Jonathan J. Darrow In a Petrie-Flom Center event last month, Dr. Alan Wertheimer raised the question of why consent is needed in ethical research. Without commenting on his answer to the question (attendees were…
By Katie Booth The New York Times recently reported that the switch to Electronic Health Records (“EHRs”) may be contributing to rising Medicare costs. The Times described two hospitals where the portion of patients billed…
Related to Nikola’s post below on the proposed revisions to the deceased donor kidney allocation policy, Al Roth has posted some interesting commentary from OPTN/UNOS Kidney Transplantation Committee Chair John Friedewald (in response to a query…
By Nadia N. Sawicki Litigation challenging the PPACA contraception mandate continues, and last week’s decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri in O’Brien v. HHS brings the total number of…
By Nikola Biller Andorno The Kidney Transplantation Committee of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN)/United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) has put forward a proposal that would substantially revise the existing national allocation system…
By Scott Burris No, I mean it: this is a question to Bill of Health readers who know about the law on this topic. This week, a colleague handed me a palm card she’d been…
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 4:00pm Radcliffe Gymnasium 18 Mason Street Cambridge, MA Please join us for a presentation of the 2012-2013 Radcliffe Fellows Series. Bill of Health Co-Editor I. Glenn Cohen will discuss the growing phenomenon…
By The Petrie-Flom Center We’re pleased to introduce and welcome Nikola Biller-Adorno to our blogging community as an occasional contributor. Nikola directs the Institute of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She has…
By Adriana Lee Benedict Earlier this year, the World Health Organization’s Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination (CEWG) issued a report calling for, inter alia, increased support for innovative pharmaceutical…
By Patrick O’Leary Looking back over last month’s health-related news, two articles published on The Atlantic’s website stand out to illustrate a tension that has received a great deal of focus in Medicare reform circles,…
