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HealthLawBlog discusses cases, legislation and news about health law.

Author: Author Thomas Mayo is a law professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

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Recent Posts from HealthLawBlog

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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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 -…
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…
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…