June 24, 2024
(Axios) – Texas doctors don’t need to wait until a pregnant person is at risk of death to provide them an abortion, per new guidance from the Texas Medical Board. Why it matters: Texas law prohibits performing an abortion, offering exemptions … Read More
June 24, 2024
(ABC News) – Monday marks two years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to an abortion and allowing states to decide whether to restrict access to the procedure or not. As of Friday, 14 … Read More
June 24, 2024
(Washington Post via MSN) – State legislators and law enforcement are reinstating dormant laws that criminalize mask-wearing to penalize pro-Palestinian protesters who conceal their faces, raising concerns among covid-cautious Americans. (Read More)
June 21, 2024
(The Verge) – New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) signed two bills into law on Thursday that aim to protect kids and teens from social media harms, making it the latest state to take action as federal proposals still await … Read More
June 17, 2024
(The Hill) – More than 170,000 people have traveled out of state to receive abortion care since January of last year, according to new data from the Guttmacher Institute, a figure underlined by the increasing difficulty to access care in some … Read More
June 17, 2024
(New York Times) – Dr. Walker, 39, first publicly opposed in vitro fertilization five years ago, co-writing an article titled “Breaking Evangelicalism’s Silence on IVF” for the website of the evangelical organization the Gospel Coalition, which ran a companion essay by a … Read More
June 13, 2024
(Associated Press) – The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. … Read More
June 11, 2024
(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a lawsuit by more than 200 hospitals that serve low-income populations accusing the federal government of shortchanging them on Medicare funding by about $1.5 billion per year. The hospitals, located … Read More
June 7, 2024
(Virginia Public Media) – During the most recent legislative session in 13 states (including Iowa), lawmakers introduced bills that could give some of the same rights to embryos and fetuses that generally protect a person, according to an analysis by … Read More
June 7, 2024
June 6, 2024
(The Hill) – Students are quickly learning the ease with which AI can create nefarious content, opening up a new world of bullying that neither schools nor the law are fully prepared for. Educators are watching in horror as deepfake … Read More
May 23, 2024
(Associated Press) – The Supreme Court’s pending Idaho abortion ruling may hinge on how federal spending power might protect doctors against a state’s criminal code. For guidance, the justices can look to the very beginning of Medicare in the 1960s, … Read More
May 22, 2024
(NBC News) – The Louisiana House approved a bill Tuesday that would add two medications commonly used to induce abortions to the state’s list of controlled dangerous substances, making possession of the drugs without valid prescriptions a crime punishable by … Read More
May 21, 2024
(Associated Press) – In an isolated part of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters known as the 12th-floor “bubble,” chief Anne Milgram made an unusual request of top deputies summoned in March for what she called the “Marijuana Meeting”: Nobody … Read More
May 21, 2024
Two Senate Republicans on Monday introduced legislation to protect access to in vitro fertilization, known as IVF, after a Democratic-led effort to do so failed earlier this year in the upper chamber. The bill, titled the IVF Protection Act, was … Read More
May 20, 2024
(Axios) – Marijuana could get easier to study following the Biden administration’s move to reclassify it as a less dangerous drug, but scientists say research barriers won’t entirely disappear. Why it matters: Even as most Americans live in states that … Read More
May 20, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – With hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars flowing to insurers in a fast-growing market buoyed by aging baby boomers, there was little not to like as far as Wall Street was concerned. Companies like UnitedHealth Group … Read More
May 17, 2024
May 14, 2024
(Washington Post via MSN) – A bipartisan group of senators, including Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, will unveil a long-awaited “road map” this week for regulating artificial intelligence, directing Congress to infuse billions of dollars into research and development of … Read More
May 14, 2024
(Associated Press) – A trial is underway in Virginia that will determine whether state law allows frozen embryos to be considered property that can be divided up and assigned a monetary value. Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Dontae Bugg heard … Read More
May 13, 2024
(Politico) – Hospitals want you to visit them less often. Empowered by Washington and armed with Covid-inspired health innovations, health executives are seeking to increasingly move care outside of the hospital — despite the seeming risk to their bottom line. … Read More
May 9, 2024
(The Guardian) – A former New York assistant district attorney and his husband on Thursday filed a class-action lawsuit against New York City, Mayor Eric Adams, former mayor Bill de Blasio and other city leaders in a landmark case for … Read More
May 8, 2024
(Wired) – The White House has issued new rules aimed at companies that manufacture synthetic DNA after years of warnings that a pathogen made with mail-order genetic material could accidentally or intentionally spark the next pandemic. The rules, released on … Read More
May 2, 2024
(MedPage Today) – Kentucky has become the first state to decriminalize medical errors — a move many medical associations support. HB 159 was signed by Kentucky’s Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear on March 26 after passing the state legislature earlier that … Read More
May 2, 2024
(The New Atlantis) – Real regulation is long overdue. But consumer protection is not enough. The confusion brings to light a fundamental conflict in how IVF has been regulated, and how it hasn’t. The effect of existing law for decades … Read More
