“Unrepresented” veterans — those lacking both the capacity to make medical decisions on their own and surrogates to act on their behalf — face difficulty transitioning from VA hospitals to post-acute care facilities, such as nursing homes or assisted living, due to their inability to provide consent.
Somewhere along the way, medicine made a quiet but consequential mistake. We invented a term called Full Code.
The U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate among developed nations. And yet, since 2020, a staggering 116 rural labor and delivery (L&D) wards in America have shuttered their doors, representing an 11 percent reduction in the overall number of rural L&D wards.
In health law, we tend to speak about regulations and court rulings. But behind every case file, there is something more: a story, an emotion, and, above all, a person.
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…
In stark relief to countless Executive Branch assaults on American public health infrastructure and the passage of the “Big, Beautiful Bill” against medical guidance earlier this year, recent governmental actions to address Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) — the country’s most common and most deadly bloodborne infection — appear refreshingly informed by scientific consensus.
In the highly polarized case of United States v. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s legislative denial of two types of medical care for gender dysphoria in young people. In so doing the decision conscripted medical decision-making for trans youth from doctors and vested it in the legislature.
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is pleased to announce our 2025 annual conference: “Law, Health Care, and the Aging Brain and Body.” This year’s conference is organized by the Petrie-Flom Center in collaboration with Nina A. Kohn, the David M. Levy Professor of Law at Syracuse…
By Stephen Wood In an era where health care inequities already burden marginalized populations, the bankruptcy of Steward Health Care culminating in the closure of several hospitals in Massachusetts, represents an unconscionable ethical failure. As these hospitals prepare to shut their doors, the communities they serve — comprising many uninsured, underinsured, and socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals —…
The film Preconceived shines a bright light on anti-abortion “Crisis Pregnancy Centers” (CPCs), including their disturbing take on HIPAA.
