HealthLawProf Blog
Features health law news and information, including analysis of the FDA and the healthcare industry.
Author: S. Elizabeth Malloy is a law professor and director of the Weaver Institute of Law & Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. She edits HealthLawProf Blog, which is part of the Law Professor Blogs Network.
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Recent Posts from HealthLawProf Blog
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Senator Kennedy and Universal Healthcare
The Boston Globe reports on Senator Kennedy's new efforts to prepare for universal healthcare. Lisa Wangass writes, Senator Edward M. Kennedy's office has begun convening a series of meetings involving a wide array of healthcare…
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European Health Care: Germany
National Public Radio has a brief overview of German health care. It is quite an interesting piece and shows the importance of access to health care and also how differently the government role in providing…
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Parents and Health Care Issues
The Boston Globe reports on a tragic case of an austic boy with leukemia whose mother apparently failed to follow a specific treatment regime and now faces jail time. The parents are divorced, their relationship…
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Balancing Billing
The LA Times reports on the California's recent move to prevent PrimeHealth from billing its privately insured patients for unpaid treatment received at PrimeHealth medical facilities. Daniel Costello writes, The Department of Managed Health Care,…
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New Medicare Rules for Hospice
The Washington Post reports on the new Medicare rules for hospice care. Alicia Ault writes, Twenty-five years after Medicare began paying for hospice care, the federal health program has issued a new rule calling hospice…
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Emergency Room Malfunction - Again
Wasn't fairly recently that we read about person dying in the emergency room after she fell to the floor and displayed symptoms of severe distress. It seemed too terrible to repeat - but yet today…
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Women and Health Insurance
Ezra Klein reports on the findings of Jon Cohn regarding the health insurance industry and women He writes, Jon Cohn peers into insurance price differentials and comes back with a depressing, but unsurprising, finding: Insurers…
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FDA - More Bad Produce?
The Washington Post reports that it may be more than just tomatoes that contain the salmonella that has sickened more than 810 across the United States. Annys Shin reports, Tomatoes carrying a rare form of…
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CT Scans and New Health Technologies: A Cost/Benefit Analysis
The New York Times has a long front page article today on the value of CT scans and other new technologies that doctors feel they need to use for patient health without much proof that…
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Informed Consent or Compelled Speech
The Eighth Circuit has overturned an injunction granted to Planned Parenthood that prevented the South Dakota informed consent abortion statute from going into effect. The ASCBlog reports on the case and states, An en banc…