Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Washington pharmacists sue to block "morning after pill" law

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From AHLA 's Health and Life Sciences Law Daily : Washington pharmacists sue state over requirement of morning-after pill. The AP (7/28...

Transplant surgeon charged in patient death

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In what is reported to be the first ever such prosecution, a California transplant surgeon has been charged with prescribing excessive doses...
Monday, July 30, 2007

Medical tourism: Mexico for cost, quality, access

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Today's Dallas Morning News has an article about the great medical care available south of the border for a fraction of the cost of co...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

States get health care report card from Commonwealth Fund

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There's a good article in the current Modern Healthcare (may require paid subscription) about the recent state-by-state analyses of cos...
Monday, June 25, 2007

AMA urged to oppose retail health clinics

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According to a story in today's Chicago Tribune , "several doctors groups" are urging the AMA to oppose the propagation of he...
Sunday, June 24, 2007

Health Lawyers News, June 22

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From the folks at American Health Lawyers Association comes this week's issue of Health Lawyers News : Top Stories OIG Finds Sale Of Pa...
Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Bush vetoes stem-cell-funding bill

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As promised, the President dropped S. 5 into the trash today. S. 5, the “Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007" President's ve...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

New Orleans grand jury moving in on Memorial Medical Center doctor

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Disturbing news from CNN out of New Orleans: (CNN) -- Two nurses accused in the post-Katrina deaths of four patients at New Orleans' Me...
Sunday, June 17, 2007

Happy Father's Day

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Pain treatment and the fine line between therapy and felony

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In this morning's NY Times Magazine: When Is a Pain Doctor a Drug Pusher? By TINA ROSENBERG Published: June 17, 2007 Those treating pain...
Friday, June 15, 2007

Ellen Goodman on stem cells

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Ellen Goodman's column on the stem-cell breakthrough (a "breakthrough" if you're a mouse anyway) today in the Boston Glob...
Thursday, June 14, 2007

In health care, high cost not necessarily the same as high quality

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Just an excellent article in today's NY Times about a study that shows significant disparities between health care charges and health ...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

SCOTUS: Home health workers not entitled to overtime pay

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The Supreme Court has held that home healthcare workers are not entitled to overtime pay ( Long Island Care at Home, Ltd. v. Coke ). Here...
Monday, June 11, 2007

"Boarding" in EDs on the rise, according to survey

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The number of uninsured (and underinsured) continues to rise. Where do these patients go for their health care? The most obvious answer is e...
Sunday, June 10, 2007

New dispute over frozen embryos

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Just in time for Monday's 4th Bioethics class , here's a Dallas Morning News article on the dispute in Austin over the disposition...
Saturday, June 09, 2007

Health Lawyers News, June 8

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From the folks at American Health Lawyers Association comes this week's issue of Health Lawyers News : Top Stories More Questions Surfa...
Thursday, June 07, 2007

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On the day before the House passed the stem-cell funding bill ( S. 5 passed in the Senate on April 11), which Pres. Bush has promised to ...
Monday, June 04, 2007

TB quarantines are usually a local matter, rarely federal

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That's what last night's AP story on Drew Speaker reported. True enough, and this case illustrates that local authority is still pr...

Top SSRN downloads in public health law

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Here are the top 10 SSRN downloads in public health law as of the end of May: Why Evolutionary Biology is (So Far) Irrelevant to Law U of T...
Sunday, June 03, 2007

Groopman on medical error: it's not all about systems

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There's an interesting blog post by Rob Cunningham over at Health Affairs, ostensibly about Jerome Groopman's new book, How Doctors...