February 9, 2024
(Axios) – A push to let physicians prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients is getting major attention in statehouses this year, with lawmakers in 19 states considering bills to allow the practice. The big picture: Despite continuing skepticism from … Read More
February 9, 2024
(ABC News) – Ecuador’s high court on Wednesday decriminalized euthanasia and ordered lawmakers and health officials to draft rules and regulations for the procedure. The decision of Ecuador’s Constitutional Court came in response to a lawsuit from a terminally ill … Read More
February 8, 2024
(Axios) – A divided House of Representatives on Wednesday endorsed banning quality-adjusted life years from being used as a metric for determining a drug’s value in federal health programs. Why it matters: QALYs are viewed as a key tool in … Read More
February 8, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – It’s not just Congress. States are taking on social media’s grip on teenagers, too. Officials in New York are pushing to restrict the algorithms that power a platform’s feed, making it the latest state to attempt … Read More
February 7, 2024
(NBC News) – Miller serves on the advisory board of Choice and Dignity — an end-of-life nonprofit group based in Arizona that believes “everyone has the right to have their individual end-of-life plans respected and honored,” according to its website. … Read More
February 7, 2024
(ABC News) – A medical journal has retracted two studies claiming to show the harms of the abortion pill mifepristone, citing conflicts of interest by the authors and flaws in their research. Two of the three studies retracted by medical … Read More
February 7, 2024
(Axios) – The Biden administration hasopened up applications to run a revamped network for distributing donated organs — but lack of funding could jeopardize those efforts, federal health officials said Tuesday. Why it matters: This is the first time in … Read More
February 6, 2024
(STAT News) – The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments next month in a case that could have sweeping ramifications for federal health agencies’ communications in particular. Murthy v. Missouri alleges that federal officials coerced social media and search … Read More
February 5, 2024
(Politico) – A growing share of businesses, schools, and medical professionals have quietly embraced generative AI, and there’s really no going back. It is being used to screen job candidates, tutor kids, buy a home and dole out medical advice. … Read More
February 2, 2024
(STAT News) – Amid ongoing uncertainty about when abortions are permissible in Texas, the state’s medical board is under growing pressure to issue guidance on what type of emergency qualifies for an exemption from the state’s abortion ban. Two high-profile … Read More
February 2, 2024
(Science) – Give future parents in our shoes a choice, before it’s too late. That’s what several parents of babies born with a fatal genetic brain disorder called Krabbe disease told a federal advisory panel on newborn screening this week. … Read More
January 31, 2024
(Newsweek) – As state legislatures convene for 2024, 18 states have had assisted-suicide-enabling legislation introduced, or have it pending from last year, when such legislation was introduced in 15 states. Arguments will be made that the prospect of pain at … Read More
January 30, 2024
(New York Times) – Canada is postponing a plan to offer people suffering from mental illnesses the option of a medically assisted death, two cabinet ministers said on Monday. The announcement by Mark Holland, the health minister, and Arif Virani, … Read More
January 30, 2024
(The Hill) – The Supreme Court will hear arguments on March 26 in a case that could limit the availability of the common abortion pill mifepristone. The justices will hear an appeal from the Biden administration and the maker of … Read More
January 19, 2024
(New York Times) – For decades, Uganda’s campaign against H.I.V. was exemplary, slashing the country’s death rate by nearly 90 percent from 1990 to 2019. Now a sweeping law enacted last year, the Anti-Homosexuality Act, threatens to renew the epidemic … Read More
January 19, 2024
January 18, 2024
(New York Times) – One of the newest battlefields in the abortion debate is a decades-old federal law called the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, known by doctors and health policymakers as EMTALA. The issue involves whether the law … Read More
January 17, 2024
January 15, 2024
(The Walrus) – Dying with Dignity Canada isn’t just a charity; it’s also the country’s biggest pro-MAID lobby group. Theoretically, lobby groups are meant to allow for the interests of all stakeholders to be represented to the government. But when … Read More
January 12, 2024
(Axios) – Gender dysphoria diagnoses rose in nearly every U.S. state between 2018 and 2022, per a new Definitive Healthcare report. They fell only in South Dakota, which last year became the sixth state to restrict gender-affirming care for minors. … Read More
January 10, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – A battle is brewing over the latest term for many packaged food products that manufacturers fear could infiltrate U.S. food policy and scare off consumers. Food-industry groups and makers of goods from ice cream to pasta … Read More
January 8, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The Supreme Court said Friday [January 5] it would hear Idaho’s challenge to federal regulations requiring that Medicare-funded hospitals provide abortions when necessary to stabilize a patient during a medical emergency, and allowed the state to … Read More
January 4, 2024
(Associated Press) – A Connecticut woman who pushed for expanded access to Vermont’s law that allows people who are terminally ill to receive lethal medication to end their lives died in Vermont on Thursday, an event her husband called “comfortable … Read More
January 3, 2024
(NBC News) – Mounting concerns over self-driving cars — headlined by allegations that autonomous vehicle maker Cruise misled the California Department of Motor Vehicles about an accident in San Francisco that seriously injured a pedestrian — have some people questioning … Read More
January 2, 2024
(Reuters) – Artificial intelligence represents a mixed blessing for the legal field, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said in a year-end report published on Sunday, urging “caution and humility” as the evolving technology transforms how judges and lawyers … Read More
