Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Physician-assisted suicide (or Aid-in-Dying) ain't easy

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This is a powerful piece (reprinted with permission) from the Kaiser Family Foundation: ‘No One Is Ever Really Ready’: Aid-In-Dying Patie...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Billion-dollar Medicare fraud case in Miami on the ropes

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. . . for prosecutorial misconduct. However this case turns out, both sides have issues for the inevitable appeal. https://www.miamiherald...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

First: smoke and mirrors. Followed by: pure bunkum.

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The Trump administrations recent rulemaking for "association health plans" -- which allow small businesses and others to band to...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Why is this man smiling?

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The U. S. House of Representatives has once again voted against the ACA's tax on medical device manufacturers , after two previous pos...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

When futility itself is futile

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Medical futility represents a judgment that further treatment would not provide a benefit to the patient. (Set aside for present purposes th...
Monday, July 16, 2018

Johnson & Johnson mega-verdict

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From Bloomberg Legal News:      "Johnson & Johnson should ready itself for a flood of new lawsuits after a jury ordered the compa...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018

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Brett Kavanaugh is, by all accounts, a splendid fellow, as well as a well-credentialed appellate judge who -- in addition to being quite con...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Hoping to visit this blog more than once every four years!

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Just checking in. I am thinking about reactivating this site, now that I am teaching Health Law, Public Health Law & Ethics, and Bioethi...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

American University's 7th annual Health Law & Policy Summer Institute

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From Matthew W. Pierce, Associate Director of American University's Health Law & Justice Program, comes an announcement about the ...
Friday, December 31, 2010

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It's obviously been a while since I posted to this blog. Between directing an ethics center and maintaining a pretty heavy teaching and ...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

Dallas Morning News' excellent series on health care costs (and other things that matter)

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Hooray to the Dallas Morning News for its week-long series on health care and the systemic issues that have contributed to the crisis we are...
Sunday, March 29, 2009

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Good article in today's NY Times comparing the Obama health reform plan to the Massachusetts experience, including a nifty graphic tha...
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...