November 12, 2019
(STAT News) – Unfortunately, there are many more examples like this one in which manufacturers used legal orders to keep hidden information that would have been important to public health and clinical decision-making. There is growing consensus today that we … Read More
November 12, 2019
(The Conversation) – The idea of growing babies outside the body has inspired novels and movies for decades. Now, research groups around the world are exploring the possibility of artificial gestation. For instance, one group successfully grew a lamb in … Read More
November 11, 2019
(STAT News) – There are three general contexts in which it is permissible and sometimes obligatory to refuse care: when doctors are subjected to abusive treatment, when the treatment requested is outside a doctor’s scope of practice, or when providing … Read More
November 8, 2019
(Undark) – India’s commercial surrogacy industry, once a $400 million-a-year business, may now be on the verge of shutting down. In July, the Indian Parliament’s lower house, Lok Sabha, passed the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019, a piece of legislation that … Read More
November 5, 2019
(Scientific American) – Many Americans will face some form of significant medical decision-making during their lifetimes, either for themselves or for their loved ones. Often, the choices they confront will raise challenging ethical questions: when to remove a relative from … Read More
November 1, 2019
(Five Thirty-Eight) – Regardless of why e-cigs have turned toxic, historians and consumer law advocates see lessons in the sulfanilamide disaster of 1937 — ones that go beyond the obvious surface similarities of poisonous, fruit-flavored liquids. Both cases highlight the … Read More
October 29, 2019
(STAT News) – The Food and Drug Administration, also on the defensive, has been quick to reassure consumers and Congress that its regulatory system of data review and inspections is effective regardless of where drugs for the United States are … Read More
October 28, 2019
(The Conversation) – When new guidance relating to the outcome and medical care of babies born extremely prematurely was recently released, it led some to call for UK abortion law to be revised. This was because one of the new … Read More
October 22, 2019
(U.S. News & World Report) – Hospital stays for those with dementia are burdensome, traumatic, and associated with worse end of life outcomes. A person with dementia spends an average of 23 days in a hospital or skilled nursing facility, … Read More
October 18, 2019
(STAT News) – Our most vexing challenges in medicine right now are twofold: attracting young people to the field and keeping them there. These challenges are even more acute in transplantation. I have 12 months to teach fellows to be … Read More
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