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Public Health Product Hops

Bill of Health

Yet Dmitry Karshtedt held otherwise at the ASLME Health Law Professor’s Conference in Atlanta, GA in 2017. My latest article, Public Health Product Hops (forthcoming 2023, American University Law Review, available on SSRN ), represented my long-form attempt to reconcile our differing opinions on product hopping.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

During the pandemic, health care providers needed to deal with the security of devices rapidly procured and deployed within institutions and also outside the walls of providers, such as in field hospitals meeting the surge of coronavirus patients. 32% of medical imaging devices were running on unsupported operating systems, and. billion.

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Ethics Education in U.S. Medical Schools’ Curricula

Bill of Health

One study found that an ethics course led recipients to engage in more thorough — but not necessarily better — reasoning, while another found that evaluators disagreed so often that it was nearly impossible to achieve consensus about students’ performances.

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Trust in Healthcare is Under Stress in the US and Globally, Edelman Finds

Health Populi

Year-on-year, different spikes and ups-and-downs call out for special mention, such as: Pharma’s 13-point steep dive to 38% between 2017 and 2018, dramatically recovering by 9 points in the last year to 47% [with the wild card here of whether U.S. Consumer health’s fall from 63% in 2019 to 51% in 2020.

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Beyond Vulnerability: Disability, Epistemic Agency, and Climate Action

Bill of Health

As argued by feminist scholar Sara Ahmed (2017: 237) , “ when a whole world is organised to promote your survival, from health to education, to the walls designed to keep your residence safe, to the paths that ease your travel, you do not have become so inventive to survive. ”

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Access to Technology Is the New Pillar for Well-Being: CES & the UN Partner for Human Security for All

Jane Sarashon

Health Populi’s Hot Points: From the start of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, one thing became clear: that people living in households without connectivity were unable to work from home if they had a job that supported virtual work, attend school from home, or connect to loved ones, friends, and communities from home.

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Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health and Its Devastating Implications for Immigrants’ Rights

Bill of Health

In 2017, a similar fate befell Latice Fisher , a Black mother of three, who was charged with second-degree murder for stillbirth of her fetus. In 2015, Indiana resident and Indian immigrant Purvi Patel was sentenced to 20 years in prison for child neglect and feticide for self-managing an abortion (her sentence was later reduced).