Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Upon investigation, I found little to no analysis of PROMs in the legal literature, so Andy and I recently published a law review article about them. Health Pol’y, Law, and Ethics 1 (2023). Hahn Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, and Co-Director of Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

Malpractice 284

Malpractice Bioethics HIPAA FDA 284

Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2023

Without affirmative action in higher education, our physician workforce may become less diverse, and the quality of health care may suffer. This article explains the history of affirmative action in the U.S., is a visiting researcher at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.

Bioethics 190

Bioethics Doctors Public Health 190

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 4, 2022

When TDI is hijacked by advertisers for commercial purposes, however, serious bioethical issues emerge. I will discuss these harms in a forthcoming law review article titled The Nightmare of Dream Advertising.

Bioethics 130

Bioethics Public Health 130

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It is essential reading; the article points to the cruelty in how we situate advice and research around screen time for autistic people — and speaks to a much broader field of research that serves to always compare and situate autistic kids against typical peers, and never letting autistic kids be autistic and respected on their own terms.

Doctors 293

Doctors ADA Informed Consent Bioethics 293

Bill of Health

APRIL 27, 2022

For example, Article 53 of Geneva Convention IV prohibits the destruction by the occupying power of private and public properties, except in cases of absolute military necessity. This provision could provide minimum protection to certain animals, but only when considered to be items of private or public (or living ) property.

Governance 260

Governance Bioethics Public Health 260

Bill of Health

DECEMBER 29, 2022

As 2022 draws to a close, we’re looking back at the top ten most-read articles published on Bill of Health this year. Safety First: Potential Heart Health Risks of Microdosing. We look forward to continuing our coverage of key issues in health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics in 2023.

Bioethics 293

Bioethics ADA COVID-19 Public Health 293

Bill of Health

DECEMBER 13, 2023

8] All forms of child abuse determinations are subject to misuse of the power of the examining physician, and it is suggested that similar to bioethical determinations, child abuse considerations should be evaluated by committee and not vested in the hands of a single physician. [9] That article can be found here. City of Chicago. [4]

Bioethics 274

Bioethics Doctors Public Health 274

Bill of Health

DECEMBER 9, 2022

If selected, draft articles will be due on or before February 1, 2023. Disability-inclusive climate decision-making and solutions are not only essential for safeguarding the lives and dignity of persons with disabilities, but may also enhance the equity and effectiveness of the global transition to climate-resilient and low-carbon societies.

Bioethics 144

Bioethics Informed Consent Public Health 144

Bill of Health

JANUARY 21, 2022

Our general publication policies, including exclusive submission and peer review, are set out on our webpage. Submissions for this issue could be either articles or essays as described in those instructions. Submissions for Part I are due no later than February 1, 2022; submissions for Part II are due August 1, 2022.

Bioethics 72

Bioethics Public Health 72

Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

They conclude, “the US is consistently the wealthiest country in the world with subpar levels of coverage for a core set of health services; these findings provide additional evidence of the need to reduce disparities.”

COVID-19 133

COVID-19 Health Care Inequity COVID-19 Vaccine Medicare 133

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The February 2022 issue of Health Affairs is themed “Racism and Health.” In addition, some fresh and critical insights into the role of racial bias in the electronic health record and in machine learning and AI feel especially timely and addressable “now.”

Medicaid 113

Medicaid Medicaid Telemedicine Governance 113

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

They can threaten workplace productivity, workforce morale, and even public safety. As I argue in my article “ Cognitive Decline and the Workplace ” (forthcoming in the Wake Forest Law Review ), there are several options, but many are legally and ethically problematic. How might employers address cognitive decline concerns?

ADA 144

ADA Bioethics Health Insurance Doctors 144

Bill of Health

JULY 28, 2022

this Article offers an evidence-based assessment of each of these assumptions. This article concludes by considering why the consequences and limitations of abortion bans should matter to supporters and opponents, alike. Second, they hope bans will send a message about abortion—specifically, that abortion is immoral.

Bioethics 144

Bioethics COVID-19 Public Health 144

Bill of Health

DECEMBER 11, 2023

By Luciano Bottini Filho, Camila Gianella Malca, and Alicia Ely Yamin The intersection of health financing and the right to health is a common concern in public health advocacy. However, it is challenging to isolate the mechanisms that connect individuals’ rights with increased public investment.

Bioethics 326

Bioethics Public Health Governance Pharmaceutical Industry 326

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

This article explains how these injustices are likely to be exacerbated by the Dobbs ruling. Immigrant reproduction has long been vilified and opposed, with immigrant parents facing accusations of being hyper-fertile and giving birth to “anchor babies.”

Governance 130

Governance Bioethics Public Health 130

Health Populi

MARCH 23, 2021

In closing the loop on racial/ethnic disparities as a patient safety issue and health equity by design, I’ll point you to a recent article in Nature Digital Medicine titled “Predictably unequal.” He pointed to the potential for algorithmic bias, of which we should all be mindful to avoid and identify.

COVID-19 140

COVID-19 Health Outcomes Bioethics Public Health 140

Bill of Health

JULY 5, 2023

This article will focus on one such book, Lessons from the COVID War: An Investigative Report. Some have also served as public health officials and/or professors. The pandemic response in the United States, and its attendant hospitalization and death rates, represents a failure of public health. 209), and the like.

Public Health 274

Public Health Governance COVID-19 Vaccine Nursing Homes 274

Bill of Health

JANUARY 7, 2022

Over the summer of 2021, concern grew that the vaccines were not providing the near-perfect protection against symptomatic disease and transmission that had first emboldened the administration to jettison other public health measures. Instead, the administration mostly adapted by shifting its messaging. In the U.S.,

Public Health 339

Public Health FDA Governance COVID-19 Vaccine 339

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Beth writes that, “a whopping two-thirds of Americans now offer a thumbs-up on pharma” as the title of her article, calling out the 30-point gain from 32% in January 2020 to 62% in February 2021. Most health citizens, hoping for a way out of the public health crisis, are counting on science to liberate both lives and livelihoods.

COVID-19 154

COVID-19 COVID-19 Vaccine Pharmaceutical Industry Public Health 154