Saturday, June 02, 2007

Dutch reality tv program -- "Big Donor Show" -- a hoax

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Wouldn't you know: One of the stories that lured me out of semi-retirement and back to HealthLawBlog -- the one about the Dutch tv ne...
Friday, June 01, 2007

Health Lawyers News, June 1

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From the folks at American Health Lawyers Association comes this week's issue of Health Lawyers News : Top Stories CMS Implements New ...
Thursday, May 31, 2007

NIH creates and confers new AID research awards

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This is a little late in hitting the usually up-to-the-moment HealthLawBlog (!), but it's still worth noting. NIH has created the NIH W...
Wednesday, May 30, 2007

China's ex-regulator of food and drug gets death penalty

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And I thought we took food and drug regulation pretty seriously over here! This is from the AP ( courtesy of The Boston Globe ), and thanks...
Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Dutch reality tv: who will get my kidney?

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According to AP this morning ( courtesy of the Chicago Sun-Times ), the BNN television network in The Netherlands plans to go forward with ...
Monday, May 28, 2007

Emergency research protocols expand

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It was controversial when the FDA amended its version of the Common Rule ( 21 CFR Part 50 ) in 1996 to add a provision that allows for em...
Saturday, March 31, 2007

California health reform

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Ned Spurgeon (Utah and visiting distinguished chair at McGeorge this semester) has done a really nice piece on California health reform. I...
Saturday, March 24, 2007

Living with an incurable genetic disease

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The N.Y. Times ran a remarkable story last Sunday describing the life changes that occur when a person chooses to learn whether she has t...

Fen-phen lawyers defrauded plaintiffs, court rules

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Physicians, other health care professionals, hospitals, and other health-care entities take their lumps here with some regularity, so it is...

Federal bill prohibiting genetic discrimination analyzed by Congressional Budget Office

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H.R. 493 (the "Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2007") would broadly prohibit genetic discrimination by employers (in...
Thursday, March 22, 2007

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From CMS today (see new COP in Friday's Federal Register (I'll supply the link when it's available tomorrow)): NEW MEDICARE HOS...
Tuesday, March 20, 2007

IRS releases "Good Governance Practices" for charitable organizations

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I meant to post this earlier, but the posts have been few and far between this month, and Davis & Tremaine beat me to the punch , so I h...
Monday, March 05, 2007

GAO testimony on DOD/VA care problems for injured soldiers, vets

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GAO released the text of its testimony today before the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs of the House Committee on Ove...

To be middle-class and uninsured

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Robert Pear has an interesting front-page article today in the N.Y. Times ( "Without Health Benefits, a Good Life Turns Fragile" ...
Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Washington state courts publish public health emergency bench book

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A number of jurisdictions have published bench guides for dealing with public health emergencies. The most recent of which I am aware comes ...

NY Times article on the pervasive -- and perverse -- presence of IRBs on campus

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Today's article is more about nonmedical research that is subject to IRB review and occasional veto, but it is interesting as a cultura...
Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Second Champaign hospital loses its exempt status

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Health Business Policy has a news flash that the Champaign County (IL) "Board of Review reports that the Illinois Department of Revenu...
Monday, February 26, 2007

Everything you always wanted to know about nanotechnology but were afraid to ask

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Health lawyer Alan Goldberg alerted me to these nanotech-related publications from EPA: EPA's Science Policy Council's Feb. 15 white...
Monday, February 12, 2007

Lethal injection: what does the physicians' non-role portend?

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Sunday's NY Times Magazine had an article by Elizabeth Weil on the boomlet of public and official opinion that is starting to cohere a...

AHLA's Health Lawyers Weekly (Feb. 9)

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From the 9 February issue of AHLA's Health Lawyers Weekly : Top Stories President Bush Issues FY 2008 Budget, Calls For Substantial Medi...