Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Cash Before Chemo

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The Wall Street Journal ran a chilling Page One story yesterday: Cash Before Chemo: Hospitals Get Tough (link may require paid subscriptio...
Sunday, April 13, 2008

PBS Frontline: "Sick Around the World"

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This Tuesday, "Frontline" takes a look at the U.S. health care system by comparing what we have against other countries who manage...
Friday, April 11, 2008

Some basic health-reform lessons

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Paul Krugman's excellent op-ed yesterday -- Health Care Horror Stories - New York Times -- ought to be required reading across the coun...
Monday, April 07, 2008

More medical records abuses

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It seems that UCLA Medical Center had a serial HIPAA violator on its payroll (until he or she was fired last year for checking out Britney S...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Law review call for papers: "Preparing for a phamaceutical Response to Pandemic Influenza"

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Seton Hall Law Review Symposium Preparing for a Pharmaceutical Response to Pandemic Influenza Co-sponsored by the Health Law & Policy Pr...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

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In my Law, Literature and Medicine class , the poem "Gaudeamus Igitur" by John Stone -- eminent cardiologist and medical educato...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Are antibiotics futile for nursing home patients with advanced dementia?

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Today's New York Times has a piece about a recent article in the Archives of Internal Medicine in which the authors question the use ...
Monday, March 03, 2008

Location, location, location.

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It's the punchline to an old joke, but this time it's deadly serious. According to a recent article in Pediatrics (summary; abstrac...
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...