Book Launch: Identified versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Approach March 11, 2015 12:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Room 2012 Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Identified versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Approach is an edited volume that grew out of the 2012 conference “Identified versus Statistical Lives: Ethics and Public Policy,” cosponsored by the…
By Christine Baugh Youth sports participation comes with a variety of health and social benefits. The position statement put out by the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) indicates that over 27 million individuals age 8-17 participate in team sports in the United States, and over 60 million participate in some form of organized athletic…
By Wendy Parmet This new post by Wendy Parmet 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. Sometime in the next few months, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to issue the so-called deeming regulations,…
Check out the February 20th edition of the Petrie-Flom Center’s biweekly e-newsletter for the latest on events, affiliate news and scholarship, and job and fellowship opportunities in health law policy and bioethics. Featured in this edition: FREE REGISTRATION! Families Matter: Ethically, Legally, and Clinically March 18 – 20, 2015 Harvard Medical School Boston, MA We often talk,…
Measles, Vaccines, and Protecting Public Health Wednesday, February 25, 2015, 4:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Room 1010 Harvard Law School 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA The recent measles outbreak centered around Disneyland in California has reignited the contentious debate over childhood vaccination in the United States. Join us for a discussion of the ethical, legal, and public…
By Arthur Caplan A new opinion piece by Art Caplan, via the Washington Post: Amateurs and hucksters are not the only people telling parents not to vaccinate their children. Unfortunately some doctors — men and women sworn to the Hippocratic Oath — are purveying junk science. They say that vaccines cause autism, as in the…
This new post by George Annas appears on the Health Affairs Blog, as part of 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. 2014 saw an epidemic of Ebola in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia, and an epidemic of fear in the US. Neither epidemic…
A Dialogue on Agency, Responsibility, and the Brain with Stephen Morse Thursday, February 12, 2015, 12:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, 3019 Harvard Law School 1585 Massachusetts Avenue…
By Christine Baugh In the past several weeks there have been two studies with important implications for youth and adolescent concussions. They are summarized briefly in this post. Post-Concussion Rest. Thomas and colleagues recently published a study in the journal Pediatrics examining whether standard of care (1-2 days rest) or 5 days of strict rest (both…
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…
