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  • Read more: MA Health Reform and Medical Debt – Getting the Facts Straight
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    MA Health Reform and Medical Debt – Getting the Facts Straight

    by Rebecca Haffajee  Earlier this week, the Boston Globe reported that medical debt is still a problem in Massachusetts, with scant change since the implementation of health reform legislation in 2006. Specifically, the article reports that of approximately 3,000 adults surveyed in 2010, 17.5% had trouble paying medical bills in the past year and 20%…

  • Read more: Upcoming Event – Petrie-Flom Center Open House, 09/18/12
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    Upcoming Event – Petrie-Flom Center Open House, 09/18/12

    This year marks the start of the Petrie-Flom Center’s 8th year at Harvard Law School.  If you’re in town, please join us at our annual open house to meet our affiliates and learn more about some exciting new initiatives we’ll be launching.  We’ll have information on our events and programs scheduled for the upcoming semester, as well…

  • Read more: Fatness, Health, & Uncertainty
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    Daniel Goldberg

    Fatness, Health, & Uncertainty

    By Daniel Goldberg Reading Nir’s thought-provoking post below sparked a couple of thoughts in my mind regarding fatness, ethics, and population health.  The first is what I take to be the professional obligation to engage seriously with the epidemiologic uncertainty regarding the connections between fatness and health.  With notable exceptions — see the Rudd Center,…

  • Read more: Petrie-Flom Center Academic Fellowship – Call for Applications
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    Petrie-Flom Center Academic Fellowship – Call for Applications

    The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is currently accepting applications for the 2013-2015 Academic Fellowship Program.  The application deadline is November 16, 2012. The Fellowship is a postdoctoral program designed to identify, cultivate and promote promising scholars early in their careers. Fellows are selected from among recent graduates, young academics…

  • Read more: Art Caplan on sex in nursing homes
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    Arthur Caplan

    Art Caplan on sex in nursing homes

    [on behalf of Art Caplan] Art Caplan has an interesting new podcast on autonomy, the elderly, and sex.  He argues that clinicians ought to be promoting – or at least discussing – sex among nursing home residents, and how to make appropriate accommodations.  Take a listen (free sign-in required).

  • Read more: Pushing the Boundaries: Revisiting Transfusion of Blood Products in the Children of Jehovah’s Witnesses
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    Bioethics

    Pushing the Boundaries: Revisiting Transfusion of Blood Products in the Children of Jehovah’s Witnesses

    By Erin Talati In the intensive care unit, almost every decision can be made into life or death.  For some children whose parents are Jehovah’s Witnesses the need for a blood transfusion becomes quite literally a life or death decision.  As clinicians, we struggle with maintaining a relationship with the family, while advocating for what…

  • Read more: Tobacco Labeling and the Ethics of Persuasion
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    Tobacco Labeling and the Ethics of Persuasion

    by Nadia N. Sawicki The D.C. Circuit’s recent decision vacating the FDA’s graphic labeling requirements has prompted a flood of valuable commentary about compelled speech doctrine, including Richard Epstein’s, below.  While analysis of the First Amendment issues is important, I view the R.J. Reynolds case instead as an example of how emphasis on formal legal…

  • Read more: Jurimetrics Call for Papers – Special Issue: Intersection of Law, Science, and Policy to Protect the Public’s Health
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    Health Law Policy

    Jurimetrics Call for Papers – Special Issue: Intersection of Law, Science, and Policy to Protect the Public’s Health

    Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology (ASU/ABA) is seeking submissions for a special symposium issue edited by James Hodge on the Intersection of Law, Science, and Policy to Protect the Public’s Health, to be published in Spring 2013.  Potential manuscripts may include: Examinations of how and why law, policy, and science either advance…

  • Read more: Elderly drivers and fatal accidents: Is the doctor responsible?
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    Arthur Caplan

    Elderly drivers and fatal accidents: Is the doctor responsible?

    [posted on behalf of Art Caplan] Should a physician be held responsible if an elderly patient causes a car accident while driving? A Los Angeles jury recently decided that Dr. Arthur Daigneault was not responsible for the wrongful death of 90-year-old William Powers, whose longtime partner, a dementia patient, drove into the path of an…

  • Read more: Health Law Workshop: Alan Wertheimer
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    Health Law Workshop: Alan Wertheimer

    Presentation Download Alan Wertheimer‘s paper: Why is Consent a Requirement for Ethical Research?