Thursday, December 18, 2008

Dallas Morning News: series on palliative care

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This is quite a remarkable series of articles on end-of-life care and in particular palliative care at Baylor University Medical Center. Sho...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

WSJ backs incentives for organ donation

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I know it will not come as a surprise that the house organ for American capitalism thinks a market for buying and selling human organs would...
Friday, December 12, 2008

Vatican issues 3rd major bioethics pronouncement in 21 years

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First, it was Donum Vitae (The Gift of Life) in 1987, followed by Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life) in 1995. Now the Vatican has given...
Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Cleveland Clinic addresses financial conflicts of interest head-on

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Today's Times has an interesting piece on the Cleveland Clinic 's new policy of publicly reporting the business relationships tha...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

13-year-old refuses heart transplant

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The story of Hannah Jones is provoking some strong reactions -- both positive and negative -- in the U.K. The 13-year-old girl has refused a...
Sunday, November 23, 2008

Larry Gostin's "Public Health Law" text in new edition

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The great just got better. No public-health law library would be complete without Larry Gostin's Public Health Law -- Power, Duty, Rest...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

Health insurers agree to drop pre-existing condition exclusion

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You read that right. According to an article in today's New York Times , the two big health-insurance industry associations have agreed ...
Sunday, November 09, 2008

Washington passes PAS ballot measure

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The State of Washington became the second state in the U.S. to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Initiative 1000 passed 58-42, according...
Monday, November 03, 2008

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Interesting report from The Commonwealth Fund: More than two-thirds of respondents to the latest Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Health ...
Monday, October 20, 2008

Tax-exempt hospitals and "community benefit"

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Excellent discusion by John Colombo over at Nonprofit Law Prof Blog , ostensibly about the recent GAO report, Nonprofit Hospitals: Variation...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Seton Hall Law Review Symposium

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Preparing for a Pharmaceutical Response to Pandemic Influenza: A Seton Hall Law Review Symposium October 23-24, 2008 Seton Hall University S...
Saturday, September 27, 2008

Pay for the best care, save money

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Cary Grant is supposed to have said it's cheaper in the long run to buy the best shoes possible -- they will hold up better, last longe...
Monday, August 18, 2008

Insurer to pay $225M settlement in Medicaid coverage-denial suit

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The Kaiser Network has picked up on a report from Reuters that Amerigroup has settled a qui tam whistleblower suit in which it was accuse...
Thursday, August 14, 2008

Pediatric DCD in the news

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Today The Washington Post has an article -- Infant Transplant Procedure Ignites Debate -- that builds on yesterday's AP article about ...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

"For better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health . . . "

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How to pick a life partner, 2008-style: "Let's see. . . . Good personality? Check. Kind to small animals and young children? Check....
Thursday, August 07, 2008

U.S. health care reform: can 8 out of 10 Americans be wrong?

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The latest from The Commonwealth Fund is a report based upon a Harris Interactive survey that sought the opinions of a sample of 1,004 adu...
Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Congresswoman Slams Religious Right's Assault on Science's "Edgier" Side

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Scientific American has an on-line interview with Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette, who recently published, "Sex, Science and Stem Cells: I...

New Study Looks at Uninsurance Among Immigrants

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New Study Looks at Uninsurance Among Immigrants [from today's Kaisernetwork.org's Daily Health Policy Report] Although U.S.-born res...

Latest health-related reports from GAO

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Electronic Health Records: DOD and VA Have Increased Their Sharing of Health Information, but More Work Remains. GAO-08-954, July 28, 2008 (...

Texas Attorney General: Charitable Hospital Summit

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For those interested in charity care and community benefits in Texas, the Texas Attorney General is hosting a "summit" on Tuesday...