Dorit Reiss has a new op-ed in The Times of Israel describing defamation suits that are being brought in the midst of the vaccination debate. Take a look. Anti-vaccination activists in Israel have recently resorted to threatening critics with defamation suits over comments in online social-media discussions. This is not a new tactic: In several…
By Arthur Caplan Bill of Health Contributor Art Caplan has a new opinion piece online at MedScape: “YOUR Fault if Your Unvaccinated Child Makes Someone Sick.” (Note: Registration to access MedScape is free.) Are you doing enough to make sure that your patients and their kids are getting vaccinated? Sometimes we leave this for the…
By The Petrie-Flom Center The Petrie-Flom Center has released the description and call for 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…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has co-authored a new article, with Nirav R. Shah, published online today by JAMA. In “Managing the Human Toll Caused by Seasonal Influenza: New York State’s Mandate to Vaccinate or Mask,” Caplan and Shah discuss New York’s new mandate that health care personnel who have not been vaccinated against the…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a short new article out expanding on the idea he launched here at Bill of Health that non-vaccinators should be held liable for the harms they can cause. Take a look.
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new opinion piece up at nbcnews.com on a recent outbreak of measles centered around a church in Newark, Texas. From the piece: The congregation of Eagle Mountain International Church in Newark, Texas, recently discovered that prayer is no substitute for vaccination. After visiting Indonesia, an unidentified visitor to the megachurch 50…
By Y. Tony Yang, ScD, LLM, MPH More and more frequently, the media are reporting two potentially related and troubling developments: an alarming increase in outbreaks of deadly infectious vaccine-targeted diseases and the growing refusal by parents to allow their children to be vaccinated. (See this recent U.S. News & World Report article on cases…
As of Friday, June 28, this post is closed to further comments. We want to thank the many readers who have engaged in a vigorous and civil discussion on the recent posts to the Bill of Health that engage questions related to the debate over vaccines. In general, we do not moderate discussions on the…
As of Friday, June 28, this post is closed to further comments. We want to thank the many readers who have engaged in a vigorous and civil discussion on the recent posts to the Bill of Health that engage questions related to the debate over vaccines. In general, we do not moderate discussions on the…
As of Friday, June 28, this post is closed to further comments. We want to thank the many readers who have engaged in a vigorous and civil discussion on the recent posts to the Bill of Health that engage questions related to the debate over vaccines. In general, we do not moderate discussions on the…
