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Read more: Art Caplan: Many needlessly getting steroid injections for back pain
Art Caplan: Many needlessly getting steroid injections for back pain
By Arthur Caplan In his latest MSNBC column, Art Caplan addresses a different angle of the fungal meningitis outbreak: Many needlessly getting steroid injections for back pain, bioethicist says The quest for relief from pain has now resulted in the deaths of 19 people and a total of 247 confirmed infections of fungal meningitis from…
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Read more: Florida’s Constitutional Amendment on Healthcare: Why It Still Matters after the Supreme Court’s Healthcare Decision
Florida’s Constitutional Amendment on Healthcare: Why It Still Matters after the Supreme Court’s Healthcare Decision
By Katie Booth This November, Floridians will vote on whether to amend the Florida constitution “to prohibit laws or rules from compelling any person or employer to purchase, obtain, or otherwise provide for health care coverage.” Similar constitutional amendments are on the ballot in Alabama and Wyoming and have already been adopted in Arizona, Oklahoma, and Ohio….
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Read more: NIH + NFL = PHLR
NIH + NFL = PHLR
By Scott Burris, JD The National Football League has given the National Institutes of Health $30 million for research on traumatic brain injury. There is much we don’t know about the causes, effects, prevention and treatment of sports-related brain injury – but that doesn’t mean that we should put all our eggs into the basket…
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Read more: Using the Taxing Power for Public Health
Using the Taxing Power for Public Health
By Scott Burris In a Perspective in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine, Michelle Mello and Glenn Cohen, both professors at Harvard, write about the prospects for using the constitutional Taxing Power to adopt innovative laws to advance public health objectives. Cueing off the Supreme Court’s decision in the Affordable Care Act litigation, Mello…
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Read more: Medicaid Denials of Coverage for Prosthetic Devices: A Successful (for now) Challenge
Medicaid Denials of Coverage for Prosthetic Devices: A Successful (for now) Challenge
By Leslie P. Francis A recent Utah Court of Appeals decision is very much worth calling to the attention of those interested in access to health care and in disability rights. As financial pressures on Medicaid increase, and as Medicaid plays a increasingly important role in health reform, states are likely to consider ways of restricting…
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Read more: New Scholars in Residence Program – A New Pilot Program for Public Health Lawyers
New Scholars in Residence Program – A New Pilot Program for Public Health Lawyers
By Katharine Van Tassel With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Network for Public Health Law and the Foundation are establishing Scholars in Residence – a new pilot program for public health lawyers. The flyer for the Program is here. Scholars in Residence is an exciting new opportunity for six public health law…
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Read more: Nice Jotwell review of former Petrie-Flom Fellows’ article “Does Agency Funding Affect Decisionmaking?: An Empirical Assessment of the PTO’s Granting Patterns”
Nice Jotwell review of former Petrie-Flom Fellows’ article “Does Agency Funding Affect Decisionmaking?: An Empirical Assessment of the PTO’s Granting Patterns”
By I. Glenn Cohen Over at Jotwell, Michael Carroll (American) has a very nice review of a new paper that is a collaboration between two of our former fellows at the Petrie-Flom Center, Michael Frakes (Cornell) and Melissa Wasserman (Illinois). Their article is Does Agency Funding Affect Decisionmaking?: An Empirical Assessment of the PTO’s Granting…
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Read more: Upcoming Event – Open Acccess to Health Research: Future Directions for the NIH Public Access Policy
Upcoming Event – Open Acccess to Health Research: Future Directions for the NIH Public Access Policy
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 12:00-1:30pm Wasserstein Hall 3019 Harvard Law School In 2008, the NIH Public Access Policy entered into force, requiring “that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication,…
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Read more: Glenn Cohen on Medical Tourism
Glenn Cohen on Medical Tourism
By The Petrie-Flom Center Check out this great summary piece in the Harvard Gazette discussing Glenn Cohen‘s work on medical tourism, including some audio of his recent lecture at the Radcliffe Institute.