Friday, September 28, 2007

FDA's oversight of human-subject research: slim to none

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That's the bottom line of a report from the Inspector General of DHHS, according to an article in the New York Times . The IG's repo...
Sunday, September 16, 2007

Health Lawyers Weekly, September 14

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Crowell & Moring partner Art Lerner and counsel Michael Paddock have an analysis of the FTC's recent Evanston Northwestern Healthcar...

Vatican reaffirms stance on obligatory nature of ANH

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"The administration of food and water even by artificial means is, in principle, an ordinary and proportionate means of preserving life...

Insuring the uninsured: the right thing to do, but what's in it for me?

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Today's New York Times has an article on the new round of health-care reform proposals that are being advanced by various presidential...
Thursday, August 30, 2007

Drake Law School looking for health law/insurance law teacher

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Faculty opening at Drake: DRAKE LAW SCHOOL seeks applications for a tenure-track position in the area of health law, insurance law and relat...
Monday, August 27, 2007

Medicare beneficiaries lag in taking advantage of covered screenings and preventive care

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From the Wall Street Journal (via AHLA's Health Law Daily [link should be good for about a week]): CMS says Medicare is spending more...
Monday, August 13, 2007

Tax-exempt hospitals and "community benefit"

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This is a bit tardy but well worth noting here and reading the underlying documents as time permits. In July the IRS issued an interim repor...
Sunday, August 12, 2007

Health Lawyers Weekly, August 10

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The AHLA's Health Lawyers Weekly features two articles by lawyers from Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.S.C., on the IRS...

NY Times editorial on why the U.S. doesn't have the world's best health system

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The Times' editorial looks at the Commonwealth Fund's recent international report card that compared the U.S. with Australia, Cana...
Tuesday, August 07, 2007

DC Circuit (en banc) reverses panel decision in Abigail Alliance case

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The much-anticipated en banc decision of the D.C. Circuit came down today. The court ruled, 8-2, that dying patients do not have a fundamen...
Friday, August 03, 2007

Security issues for hospitals

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Scary words: "Hospital = Target" In this week's Health Lawyers Weekly , Mark Rogers analyzes hospital-security issues in a po...
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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