Sunday, June 06, 2004

How Private Is My Medical Information?

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The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has a good report on medical records and privacy, with a special emphasis on information that is not cover...

50-state rundown on gay-marriage laws.

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Stateline.org has published a very helpful summary (updated June 4) of pending legislation, including constitutional amendments, from aroun...

Stem cell research ethics debated.

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Yesterday's Cincinnati Enquirer ran an interesting debate over the ethics of stem-cell research, with Jeffrey Kahn arguing in favor an...
Friday, June 04, 2004

Indigent care: Texas Attorney General Op. No. GA-0198.

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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott issued an AG Opinion on indigent health care yesterday. It seems the Amarillo Hospital District sold it...

Schiavo case on fast track to Florida Supreme Court.

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The 2nd District Court of Appeal has approved Michael Schiavo's request that Jeb Bush's appeal go directly to the Supreme Court, whi...
Wednesday, June 02, 2004

Additional thoughts on late-term abortions.

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If the Administration and Congress were serious about having a law that would pass constitutional muster, Pub. L. No. 108-105 needs only tw...

Health insurance coverage and the kindness of strangers.

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Health Affairs ' May/June issue has an interesting article that show that workforce characteristics are a bigger influence on health ca...
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The skewed politics of assisted suicide.

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Liberals touting states' rights. Conservatives pooh-poohing individual liberty and freedom. The are just some of the political side-ef...
Tuesday, June 01, 2004

NY Times' extensive coverage of life and death under Oregon's PAS law.

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The New York Times has a series of articles today about the reality of living and dying under Oregon's physician-assisted suicide law. ...

More on partial-birth abortion ruling.

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Here's the essence of Judge Hamilton's ruling this morning (see below ). 1. The partial-birth abortion law is unconstitutional i...

Federal court declares partial-birth abortion law unconstitutional.

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At 9:00am this morning, Federal District Judge Phyllis Hamilton issued a 117-page order permanently enjoining the enforcement of the federal...
Monday, May 31, 2004

Alan Morrison . . . living greatly in the law.

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Alan Morrison is closing shop at the Public Citizen Litigation Group in Washington and leaving for a teaching job at Stanford, according to ...
Sunday, May 30, 2004

New Texas Supreme Court case on workers' comp.

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Texas Workers' Compensation Commission v. Patient Advocates of Texas, No. 02-0804, decided May 28 : In 1989, the Legislature enacted a n...
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Radicalized elders turn to drug smuggling.

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Good article by Elisabeth Weil in today's N.Y. Times re: groups of elders who engage in illegal prescription drug reimportation. The p...

Harvard Medical amends conflict-of-interest policies

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Trend-setter Harvard Medical School has amended its conflict policy for researchers, acording to an article in The Boston Globe . Under the...
Saturday, May 29, 2004

Monkey business affects waiting times on transplant list in Albany.

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Modern Healthcare 's Daily Dose is reporting ( alternate link ) that yesterday the New York Health Department "fined Albany (N.Y....

Maternal-fetal conflicts: a moving target.

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The Associated Press had a good article this week on a raft of recent cases in which authorities of one kind or another have come into confl...

Interesting intersection of universal health care coverage, same-sex marriage, and domestic-partners' benefits

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There is an Associated Press story out (published in today's Portsomouth (N.H.) Herald) about my hometown, Springfield, Mass. The artic...
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Physician-Assisted Suicide.

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I am no great fan of legalizing physician-assisted suicide (PAS). But once a state has gone down that road, as Oregon has with its Death Wi...
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Prisoner Abuse and Doctors' Duty.

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Over the past few years, a couple of medical journals have quite regularly published articles on the torture and abuse of prisoners and deta...