Across the United States, immigrant patients and their families are increasingly facing a harsh reality: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are appearing near or even inside hospitals. Published Author Share Across the United States, immigrant patients and their families are increasingly facing a harsh reality: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are appearing near or even…
On July 1, the federal government quietly scaled back its only active surveillance system for foodborne illnesses.
Over the past five years, governments have rewritten global health law at a rapid pace. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, states revised the International Health Regulations (IHR) in 2024 and signed a pandemic treaty in 2025, alongside billions in new preparedness funding.
Every year, more than 350,000 Americans experience cardiac arrest in non-hospital settings. But only about 1 in 10 survive. The single most important factor in whether someone lives? Whether a bystander provides cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
Please join us to celebrate the launch of Health Law as Private Law: Pathology or Pathway, published by Cambridge University Press. Might private law be as powerful a tool as government regulation in solving problems in health care and public health? This new edited volume, which grew from a 2023 conference at the Petrie-Flom Center for…
As we near the end of 2024, here are some of our most widely viewed articles on the Bill of Health blog. Reproductive health, aging/longevity, and psychedelics were among readers’ favorite topics this year. Popular articles touched on insurance coverage for psychedelic therapy, polygenic embryo screening, AI in drug development, and medical assistance in dying. The single most-read article this year…
By Anna Aguilar and Sidney Lee In 1971, Congress tasked the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) with establishing procedures to “eliminate as far as practicable” the dangers of lead poisoning. Yet, HUD has repeatedly fallen short of accomplishing this. More than 50 years later, for children in federally assisted housing in the…
Conclusion of the Digital Symposium Climate Change and Health
By Spencer Andrews We’ve all had the experience: you receive a targeted ad on your phone or computer which mysteriously seems to read your mind. This happened to me recently when I, a busy law student, began receiving a wave of ads selling supplements which purport to improve brain focus, clarity, and memory. I had…
By Cristina Rosero-Arteaga The climate emergency in Latin America is intensifying a long-standing yet underrecognized health crisis: reproductive harm due to agrochemical exposure, particularly for rural women. As shifting climate patterns threaten to exacerbate these harms, it is crucial to bring these issues into the focus of climate action. The region’s human rights framework —…
