Tuesday, September 05, 2006

SSRN roundup: health law (August 2006 additions)

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Here are last month's postings to the ever-useful SSRN: Being Specific About Race-Specific Medicine Health Affairs, Vol. 25, 2006 Jonath...
Monday, September 04, 2006

Krugman: Why is health policy malpractice a conservative disease?

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You can't read today's (or any day's) op-ed piece by Paul Krugman (or any other columnist in the N.Y. Times ) unless you are a T...
Sunday, September 03, 2006

Post-grad opportunity at Harvard

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From I. Glenn Cohen, a fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics (Harvard Law School): The Petri...

Will Christian Science health plan count in Massachusetts?

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As recently reported by the AP (courtesy of the Portsmouth (NH) Herald ), health care regulators in Massachusetts are beset by a bevy of d...

AHLA's Health Lawyers Weekly (Sept. 1)

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Here's the table of contents from Friday's "Health Lawyers Weekly," a free member benefit from the American Health Lawyers...

U.S. research: running on empty?

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Today's N.Y. Times has a piece ( "The State of Research Isn't All That Grand" ) discusses the implications for the U.S. e...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006

"Medically inappropriate treatment" - how do we decide?

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There's a good piece in the NY Times today about dialysis, when and how it should be withheld, and who should decide: "Choosing a ...
Friday, August 25, 2006

AHLA's Health Lawyers Weekly (Aug. 25)

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Here's the table of contents from today's Health Lawyers Weekly, reprinted here with the kind permission of the AHLA: Top Stories Bu...

OTC sales of Plan B approved for adults

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After years of hassling over whether to approve over-the-counter sales of the Plan B contraceptives, the FDA has finally relented and announ...
Thursday, August 24, 2006

Why is 16% of GDP too much to spend on health care?

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That will be one of my questions tomorrow in the first class in Health Law. I remember, back during the debate over the Clintons' plan, ...
Wednesday, August 23, 2006

New technique for deriving embryonic stem cells that doesn't destroy the embryo

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You would think that a technique that allows lab techs to grow embryonic stem cell lines without destroying the embryo would be the ultimate...
Sunday, August 20, 2006

Internet prescribing legislation introduced in U.S. Senate

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From the Federation of State Medical Boards : New legislation designed to regulate the sale of prescription drugs and controlled substances ...
Saturday, August 19, 2006

Latest from AHLA's Health Lawyers Weekly (18 Aug 2006)

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Herewith, the table of contents of this week's American Health Lawyers ' Health Lawyers Weekly (a free member benefit of AHLA): Top...
Friday, August 18, 2006

It's a good time to be in cardiology

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Two items from the print press, courtesy of Modern Healthcare 's "Daily Dose": In Philadelphia, heart-transplant centers aboun...
Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Medical liability insurers profiting handsomely in wake of Texas tort reform

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Three years after tort reform hit the books in Texas, the state's medical liability insurers have lowered premiums somewhat and added en...
Tuesday, August 15, 2006

More on emergency room practices

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This from the East Bay Business Times in California . . . . Sutter Delta Medical Center, among others in the region, has cut waiting times ...
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ER sends nonemergency patients packing

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This might be a case of "dog bites man," but the Jacksonville Business Journal reports that area HCA hospitals have adopted the ...
Sunday, August 13, 2006

Kaiser fined for mismanagement of its kidney-transplant program

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Considering how neurotic the organ-transplant industry is to maintain a squeaky-clean image, it's remarkable that Kaiser Permanente ...

Costly Drugs Force Life-Death Decisions

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From the AP, a good story about the costly, high-tech armamentorium of drugs and devices that offer the promise of extending life-spans onc...

More on non-heart-beating organ donors

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"NHBD" is slowly being replaced by "DCD" ("donation after cardiac death"), but whatever name it goes by, these...