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Read more: The Deadly Cost of Ignoring Clinical Need
The Deadly Cost of Ignoring Clinical Need
Iryna Zarutska immigrated to North Carolina in August 2022, fleeing war-torn Ukraine. Exactly three years later, she was taking the subway home from a shift at a local Charlotte pizzeria when, abruptly, Decarlos Brown fatally stabbed her.
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Read more: Voting Rights in Jeopardy: Implications for Health Care Disparities
Voting Rights in Jeopardy: Implications for Health Care Disparities
Health care is consistently ranked among the top concerns of the nation’s voters. A special issue for health care voters is electing candidates who are committed to making high-quality health care accessible and affordable to all.
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Read more: The Right to Care and Disability in Latin America
The Right to Care and Disability in Latin America
On Aug. 7, 2025, with Advisory Opinion OC-31/25, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights took a decisive step by becoming the first international court to recognize the human right to care as an autonomous right.
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Read more: Regulating Psilocybin as Food, Not Drugs
Regulating Psilocybin as Food, Not Drugs
Psilocybin should be regulated under food law rather than drug law. Doing so would serve public health, individual autonomy, and regulatory coherence.
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Read more: It’s Time to Safeguard Genomic Data
It’s Time to Safeguard Genomic Data
On Jan. 24, 2026, the New York Times reported that DNA sequences contributed by children and families to support a federal effort to understand adolescent brain development were later co-opted by other researchers and used to publish “race science” claims about intelligence.
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Read more: Conscience in Health Care: Dov Fox in Conversation With I. Glenn Cohen
Conscience in Health Care: Dov Fox in Conversation With I. Glenn Cohen
In his new book The Conscience of Care, Dov Fox explores the concept of medical conscience through controversies around health care services like IVF, IUDs, opioids, gender affirming care, psychedelics, organ transplants, and advance directives. “We’re used to hearing about conscientious refusers: physicians and pharmacists whose moral convictions lead them to deny a range of treatments…
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Read more: Hamm v. Smith: The Limits of Legal Certainty when Science Evolves
Hamm v. Smith: The Limits of Legal Certainty when Science Evolves
Can states keep IQ testing people sentenced to death until they get the “right” score for execution? What is really at the heart of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on executing people who have an intellectual disability?
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Read more: South Africa’s Pragmatic Turn: Pseudonymized Data and the Future of Health Research
South Africa’s Pragmatic Turn: Pseudonymized Data and the Future of Health Research
A recent South African court judgment on pseudonymized school examination results has quietly opened a new and unexpected front in global debates about data protection and health research.
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Read more: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ “Right to Care”
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ “Right to Care”
New directions for disability advocacy and organizing in the Americas? On August 7, 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights broke new ground in international human rights law by recognizing the “right to care” as an autonomous and enforceable right. Its Advisory Opinion recognizes care as an essential and universal human need on which functioning societies and humanity itself…
