Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Donation after cardiac death and the LA story

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The papers are all over yesterday's story about the prosecution of a young surgeon in Los Angeles who is accused of hastening a patient...
Sunday, February 24, 2008

Organ donation, transplant discussed on NPR

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Weekend Edition - Sunday had a very fine segment this morning on organ donation. Given what they were trying to do with this piece, there ...
Thursday, January 03, 2008

Human experimentation research request

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From Jim DuBois, PhD, DSc, Mäder Endowed Professor, Department Chair and Center Director, Center for Health Care Ethics & Becky Volpe, G...
Sunday, December 16, 2007

Medical Futility Blog

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I don't know how I missed it, but here (better late than never) is a link to Prof. Thad Pope 's estimable Medical Futility Blog , w...

Health reform: the time for happy chatter is over

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Robert Samuelson -- Newsweek columnist and Washington Post op-editorialist -- had a typically fine piece in last Thursday's Post . Here...
Monday, December 03, 2007

ACP publishes advance copy of major health reform policy statement

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Intending to be a major player in the 2008 debate over health reform and universal coverage, the American College of Physicians has posted a...
Sunday, December 02, 2007

New York City Law Review Issues Call for Papers on Health Care

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The New York City Law Review announces a call for papers for its spring symposium, "Critical Condition: What's Ailing Health Care ...

AHLA Health Lawyers Weekly, Nov. 30

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Some interesting stuff in the Health Lawyers Weekly this time around : Top Stories OIG Takes Back Power To Investigate Employee Criminal Con...

Informed consent & SCOTUS: A tale of two doctrines

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Interesting paper . . . The Constitutional Right to Make Medical Treatment Decisions: A Tale of Two Doctrines JESSIE HILL Case Western Reser...

Top Ten Health Law Stories in 2008: FDA

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There's no denying either the urgency of the FDA's mess or the bipartisan political appeal of the issue of food and drug safety. Con...
Friday, November 30, 2007

WSJ: Health policy caps mean catastrophic coverage may not be there when needed

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Yesterday's WSJ ran a story that highlights the plight of the insured middle-class in this country: It's possible to max out a healt...
Tuesday, November 27, 2007

When hospice patients don't die quickly enough, Medicare comes knocking

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Some years ago, the Medicare program proposed to recoup hospice payments if a patient didn't die within 6 months, which was the probable...
Friday, November 09, 2007

Krugman: Health Care Excuses

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Okay, I know he's a liberal (Exh. 1: "The Conscience of a Liberal" ), and so am I, so there are times when I suppose Paul Krug...

Insurer misconduct alleged in California

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From today's Modern Healthcare : Calif. insurance chief probes report of cancellations California’s insurance commissioner is investiga...
Thursday, October 25, 2007

Deputies seize baby to test blood against parents' will

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Deputies seize baby to test blood against parents' will - Associated Press -- Here's a nicely framed conflict between public health...
Sunday, October 21, 2007

Iglehart on the House's failure to override Bush's SCHIP veto

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John Iglehart, the founding editor of Health Affairs and national corespondent for the New England Journal of Medicine , posted his instant...
Saturday, October 20, 2007

Federeal employees' health plan not much of a model for reform

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There's a good analysis of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan (FEHBP) by Reed Abelson in The New York Times today. Various pre...
Thursday, October 04, 2007

Major-party presidential candidates on health reform

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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

SCHIP

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Here's a news post courtesy of FDLI's SmartBrief: White House to face state SCHIP lawsuits -- New Jersey was the first of several s...
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...