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Healthy Data Protection, Lothar Determann
Healthy Data Protection, Lothar Determann
Michigan Technology Law Review
Modern medicine is evolving at a tremendous speed. On a daily basis, we learn about new treatments, drugs, medical devices, and diagnoses. Both established technology companies and start-ups focus on health-related products and services in competition with traditional healthcare businesses. Telemedicine and electronic health records have the potential to improve the effectiveness of treatments significantly. Progress in the medical field depends above all on data, specifically health information. Physicians, researchers, and developers need health information to help patients by improving diagnoses, customizing treatments and finding new cures.
Yet law and policymakers are currently more focused on the fact that health …
Prescription Restriction: Why Birth Control Must Be Over-The-Counter In The United States, Susannah Iles
Prescription Restriction: Why Birth Control Must Be Over-The-Counter In The United States, Susannah Iles
Michigan Journal of Gender & Law
This Note argues that it is harmful and unnecessary to require women to obtain prescriptions for access to hormonal birth control. Requiring a prescription is necessarily a barrier to access which hurts women and hamstrings the ability to dictate their own reproductive plans. It is also an irrational regulation in light of the relative safety of hormonal birth control pills, particularly progestin-only formulations, compared to other drugs readily available on the shelves.
Leading medical organizations, including the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists, advocate for over-the-counter access to hormonal birth control. While acknowledging that not every woman will have positive …