By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new piece over at NBC News online on Nelson Mandela’s AIDS legacy: […] It had been an enormous mistake to ignore the epidemic, made even worse by installing an AIDS denialist as his favored successor. In 2003 Mandela began to speak out plainly and forcefully about AIDS. And he…
By Chloe Reichel 1) Following orders from FDA, 23andMe will no longer market genetic tests using health analyses. The company will, however, continue to sell genetic tests related to ancestry. 2) Families with children who have seizure disorders are flocking to Colorado. There, these children can legally receive medications containing extracts from marijuana, which are…
By Ching-Fu Lin About a month ago, Jensen Farms pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges for introducing adulterated food into the nation’s food supply via interstate commerce. In 2011, cantaloupes produced by Jensen Farms resulted in a listeria outbreak that spread across 28 states, killed 33 people, and sickened hundreds. The now bankrupt and out of…
By Kate Greenwood Cross-Posted at Health Reform Watch At Regulatory Focus earlier this week, Alexander Gaffney wrote about what he characterized as “a torrent of studies” that FDA is conducting or has proposed conducting on prescription drug promotion, and, in particular, on direct-to-consumer advertisements. The studies include, among others, a survey study aimed at sussing out “the influence of DTC advertising in…
By The Petrie-Flom Center The Petrie-Flom Center invites abstracts for its 2014 Annual Conference: “Behavioral Economics, Law, and Health Policy.” The conference will be held at Harvard Law School on May 2 and 3, 2014, and seeks to address the following questions: Are there features unique to health and health care that prevent individuals, groups,…
By Nathaniel Counts Human rights disaggregates otherwise related issues into separate rights. We discuss rights to health, education, housing, association, etc., and, in countries where these rights are codified, we litigate each one separately in the courts. We also know that each of these issues for which there is a corresponding right is, to some…
By The Petrie-Flom Center The Petrie-Flom Center invites abstracts for its 2014 Annual Conference: “Behavioral Economics, Law, and Health Policy.” The conference will be held at Harvard Law School on May 2 and 3, 2014, and seeks to address the following questions: Are there features unique to health and health care that prevent individuals, groups,…
By Scott Burris Working with Corey Davis of the Network for Public Health Law, PHLR has completed and posted updated longitudinal datasets of state laws authorizing naloxone distribution and creating “Good Samaritan” immunity for callers reporting a drug overdose to 911. Take a look at www.lawatlas.org. On the theory that an image beats a few…
By Ching-Fu Lin Earlier this year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published for public comment the proposed rule to implement §307 of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The proposed rule is to establish a program for accreditation of third-party auditors to provide the FDA with a more efficient tool to regulate food products. …
By Nicholson Price Antibiotics are a crucial aspect of modern medicine, and this fall has been filled with a number of hugely troubling reports about how we’re moving closer to an era where we can no longer take them for granted. About a month ago, the associate director of the CDC told PBS in an…
