Friday, July 28, 2006

Vacation: what a concept (Part Deux)

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Now it begins . . . .

AHLA's Health Lawyers Weekly

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With AHLA 's permission, here's the Table of Contents of today's issue of Health Lawyers Weekly : I. Top Stories: House Clears H...
Thursday, July 27, 2006

Vacation: what a concept!

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HealthLawBlog will be on vacation for the next two weeks. With random exceptions, don't expect anything new here before August 10th. St...
Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Yates: Not guilty by reason of insanity

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Finally . . . .

NOLA murder arrests: further reflections

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Today's CDC Public Health Law Newsletter has a link to a Chicago Tribune article that explores the ethics of triage and its applicabil...

Further thoughts on the Senate abortion bill

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As previously noted , the Senate has passed a bill that would impose criminal penalties on anyone who helps a minor travel across state line...
Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Senate passes prohibition on interstate travel for abortion

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The Washington Post has the story . The Senate has passed a a bill (S.403) "to prohibit taking minors across State lines in circumvent...

Juvenile court orders teen to accept chemo, reversed by circuit court

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Starchild Abraham Cherrix has Hodgkin's disease, and when the disease returned after his initial round of chemo, he refused a second rou...
Monday, July 24, 2006

The American Way of Death IV

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While we're talking about patient and family perceptions of end-of-life care in the hospital -- we were talking about that, weren't ...

The HCA deal is done

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The closing probably won't be till the 4th quarter, assuming the federal regulators bless it and the board doesn't get a better offe...
Sunday, July 23, 2006

HCA close to $21 billion buyout

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After coming oh so close to closing a deal last weekend , it looks like the board is on the verge of approving a $21 billion deal tonight. A...

Criminal Law III: More on the NOLA murder prosecutions

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AP/Yahoo has an article today entitled, "Many see accused New Orleans MD as hero." State AG made much of the fact that both morph...

The American Way of Death III

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NPR's Studio 360 program has a wonderful item this week on Emily Dickinson and her iconic poem, "Because I Could Not Stop For Dea...

The American Way of Death II

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Thanks to Joe Paduda's "Managed Care Matters" for pointing me to this story in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal abo...

The American Way of Death I

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Back in the day, the phrase "The American Way of Death" invoked Jessica Mitford 's classic expose of the funeral industry . In...
Saturday, July 22, 2006

Criminal Law II: follow-up on the Memorial Hospital case

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Now that the Louisiana Attorney General has had his day (see my earlier post ), the extent of AG Foti's grandstanding is starting to co...

Criminal Law I: promoting off-label uses of approved drugs

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Today's New York Times has an article about the recent arrest and prosecution of Dr. Peter Gleason for promoting use of the drug Xyrem...
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Friday, July 21, 2006

Texas hospitals and immigration

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There was a terrific article in The New York Times this past week on the different approaches taken by the public hospitals in Dallas Count...
Thursday, July 20, 2006

House fails to override presidential veto

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The House failed to override Pres. Bush's veto of H.R.810 by a vote of 235-193 , almost the identical vote when it was originally passed...

An excellent primer on the stem cell issue

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Everything a reporter might need to know to cover this story intelligently -- and the rest of us will find helpful as well -- has been colle...