By Holly Fernandez Lynch By now, most of you have heard about the controversial study that sought to evaluate how much oxygen to give premature newborns to preserve both their lives and their sight. Below, Laura Stark lays out some of the key details about the study and OHRP’s response, and concludes that part of…
By Laura Stark Institutional Review Boards are in the top news at outlets such as the New York Times, as a research debacle unfolds. I looked through the documents that are publicly available to figure out what happened and what to expect. Researchers at 22 universities or hospitals in the US enrolled premature babies in…
By Allison M. Whelan So much of the political and legal debate about reproductive choice centers on abortion. In doing so, these debates obscure so many other reproductive choices women must make. And the choices are not easy—and the stakes are even greater in an era where any prenatal missteps might lead to aggressive state…
By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research According to officials, the worst of this year’s devastating flu season should be over in most parts of the country. But in early January, the flu had hit 47 of 50 states. According to the CDC, a total of 78 influenza-associated pediatric deaths have been reported.…
By Patrick O’Leary When I read Susannah Meadows’s article in last week’s New York Times Magazine, The Boy with a Thorn in His Joints, I was at a bit of a loss how to respond. The article is Meadows’s account of dealing with her son’s juvenile idiopathic arthritis, and describes how, wary of the side effects of…
By The Petrie-Flom Center Just a quick note to let you know about a great resource provided by the librarian at Boston Children’s Hospital. Each month, she compiles recent articles related to bioethics in general and pediatric bioethics in particular. You can find her compilations here. Take a look!
By Casey Thomson This week’s Twitter Round-Up features an “American Idol-style” selection of research grant winners, the problems facing children in Syria attempting to be vaccinated, and a review of where we stand with current patient health information privacy and security. Michelle Meyer (@MichelleNMeyer) retweeted an article about a newly emerging landmark case in…
By Michele Goodwin The most sophisticated medical technologies are available in the United States. The luxury afforded elite health care consumers is best captured by “executive health care” and “personalized” medicines. Given the tailored health care afforded top-tier health care consumers, consciously or unconsciously those at the other end of the spectrum might be overlooked.…
By Casey Thomson [Ed. Note. 11/12/12: Just to be clear, retweeting should not be read as an endorsement of or agreement with the content of the original tweet.] With Election Day now come and gone, our bloggers were tweeting this week about the results, in addition to the greater happenings in health law and ethics.…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new article out in the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics – “Free to choose but liable for the consequences: should non-vaccinators be penalized for the harm they do?” (subscription required) Here’s the abstract: Can parents who choose not to vaccinate their children be held legally liable for any harm…
