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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Good article in today's NY Times comparing the Obama health reform plan to the Massachusetts experience, including a nifty graphic that summarizes the similarities and differences nicely.I think Obama's initial emphasis on cost-control is smart…
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Dallas Morning News: series on palliative care
This is quite a remarkable series of articles on end-of-life care and in particular palliative care at Baylor University Medical Center. Short of watching the amazing 6-hour documentary by Frederick Wiseman ("Near Death"), this is…
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WSJ backs incentives for organ donation
I know it will not come as a surprise that the house organ for American capitalism thinks a market for buying and selling human organs would produce a better system than the one we have…
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Vatican issues 3rd major bioethics pronouncement in 21 years
First, it was Donum Vitae (The Gift of Life) in 1987, followed by Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life) in 1995. Now the Vatican has given us its third major pronouncement on bioethics in over…
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Mission vs. Money: WSJ profiles Mt. Sinai Hospital in Chicago
Interesting multi-media report in today's on-line WSJ ("Pursuing Charitable Mission Leaves a Hospital Struggling" (may require subscription)) about the financial pressures on nonprofit Mt. Sinai. Here's the video:
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Cleveland Clinic addresses financial conflicts of interest head-on
Today's Times has an interesting piece on the Cleveland Clinic's new policy ofpublicly reporting the business relationships that any of its 1,800 staff doctors and scientists have with drug and device makers. The clinic, one…
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13-year-old refuses heart transplant
The story of Hannah Jones is provoking some strong reactions -- both positive and negative -- in the U.K. The 13-year-old girl has refused a heart transplant without which her doctors say she has only…
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Larry Gostin's "Public Health Law" text in new edition
The great just got better.No public-health law library would be complete without Larry Gostin's Public Health Law -- Power, Duty, Restraint. Originally published eight years ago, PHL was always more than simply a good place…
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Health insurers agree to drop pre-existing condition exclusion
You read that right. According to an article in today's New York Times, the two big health-insurance industry associations have agreed to enroll all applicants, regardless of pre-existing condition. The catch? They will only do…