HealthLawBlog
HealthLawBlog discusses cases, legislation and news about health law.
Author: Author Thomas Mayo is a law professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
Blawg Related Categories: Health Law • Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law • Law Professor
Recent Posts from HealthLawBlog
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The vaccine-autism debate: a lecture
From Mary Holland at NYU comes notice of this lecture: THE VACCINE-AUTISM DEBATE:WHY WON'T IT GO AWAY? David Kirby, AuthorEvidence of Harm - Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy Thursday, June…
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Med mal premiums in Mass., 1975-2005
Marc Rodwin, one of the most innovative and consistently interesting health law scholars around, has published (with others) in the May/June issue of Health Affairs a very useful study of med mal premiums in Massachusetts…
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American College of Physicians: E-Health Recommendations
The ACP's new report, E-Health and Its Impact on Medical Practice, is presented on their news page. The challenge of moving physicians to electronic health records is daunting. This is from the press release: Health…
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Two Versions of End-of-Life Care
The New York Times had an interesting article Friday (In New York City, Two Versions of End-of-Life Care) on variations in end-of-life care -- not the usual comparison of EOL expenditures between geographically disparate locations,…
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Cash Before Chemo
The Wall Street Journal ran a chilling Page One story yesterday: Cash Before Chemo: Hospitals Get Tough (link may require paid subscription). Here's a little video teaser: Once again, it's all too easy in the…
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PBS Frontline: "Sick Around the World"
This Tuesday, "Frontline" takes a look at the U.S. health care system by comparing what we have against other countries who manage to provide better access and produce better outcomes at a lower cost. Here…
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Some basic health-reform lessons
Paul Krugman's excellent op-ed yesterday -- Health Care Horror Stories - New York Times -- ought to be required reading across the country. There is plenty to debate about how to fix our health care…
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More medical records abuses
It seems that UCLA Medical Center had a serial HIPAA violator on its payroll (until he or she was fired last year for checking out Britney Spears' medical record). See: More UCLA records abuses -…
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Law review call for papers: "Preparing for a phamaceutical Response to Pandemic Influenza"
Seton Hall Law Review Symposium Preparing for a Pharmaceutical Response to Pandemic Influenza Co-sponsored by the Health Law & Policy Program’s Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law and the Gibbons Institute of Law, Science…
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In my Law, Literature and Medicine class, the poem "Gaudeamus Igitur" by John Stone -- eminent cardiologist and medical educator and poet-essayist par excellence -- is always a hit (you can listen to an NPR…