By John Tasioulas The international community is currently in the process of formulating the Sustainable Development Goals that will guide the post-2015 development agenda. Many UN bodies, NGOs, governments and members of civil society have in the past stressed the vital need to embed the SDGs in a human rights framework. However, in July 2014, the UN’s Open Working Group…
This new post by Charles Baron appears on the Health Affairs Blog, as part of a series stemming from the Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School on Friday, January 30, 2015. Brittany Maynard’s highly publicized decision to end her life under Oregon’s Death With Dignity law has given a new face to the…
By Allison M. Whelan, J.D. A legislative advisory committee is set to present an amended bill to the Minnesota State Legislature this session that raises the standard of care provided to incarcerated pregnant women in Minnesota prisons. The amendment seeks to clarify language of a law passed on May 8, 2014 seeking to ensure incarcerated…
A Right to Health? A lecture by John Tasioulas Thursday, February 5, 2015 12:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Room 3019 Harvard Law School 1589 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA There have been recent calls to establish a framework convention on health grounded in the human right to health. But is there really a human right…
A new piece in Forbes on suing parents who don’t vaccinate, by Dan Diamond: I heard it over dinner at a friend’s house. I talked about it on a call with a scientist. I discussed it while waiting for public health officials to issue an update on the measles outbreak. The same murmured question, the…
By Nicole Hassoun Ebola is ravaging parts of Africa, yet it is not the worst health problem facing people in the region. Millions more are infected with and die every year from diseases like malaria, TB, and HIV/AIDS because they cannot access the essential medicines they need. To change this, we need to understand where…
By Arthur Caplan A new piece by Art Caplan on why he believes a minor can’t say no to chemotherapy, on NBC News: A 17-year-old girl, listed in court papers only as Cassandra C., is in protective custody at a Connecticut hospital where she is being forced to undergo chemotherapy treatment that she says she does not…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new piece supporting the nurse who resisted force-feeding at Guantanamo, on NBC News: Lost in all the talk about the CIA’s history of brutal interrogation tactics after Sept. 11 is this: A real live case involving a U.S. Navy nurse on trial for what he did not do…
By The Petrie-Flom Center An op-ed from our friends Mark Barnes and Barbara Bierer at Harvard’s Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center on recent legal changes to India’s clinical trial requirements, arguing that using the clinical trial context to promote a social or political policy agenda in India may sacrifice scientific integrity in the service of social justice. A…
[Blogger’s Note: I am very pleased to share this post by my colleague at Seton Hall Law, Carl Coleman. This post was cross-posted at Health Reform Watch.] By Carl H. Coleman With well over 5,000 global deaths from Ebola already reported, drug developers are working fast to begin human clinical trials of promising experimental treatments. Earlier this month,…
