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Protecting Egg Donors And Human Embryos—The Failure Of The South Korean Bioethics And Biosafety Act, Mukta Jhalani
Protecting Egg Donors And Human Embryos—The Failure Of The South Korean Bioethics And Biosafety Act, Mukta Jhalani
Washington International Law Journal
Human embryonic stem cells have the potential to treat many physical and neurological disorders due to their unique ability to transform into any type of human cell. The process of deriving stem cells from human embryos, however, raises important ethical and regulatory issues. Embryonic stem cell research requires a steady source of human eggs to create embryos that are destroyed during stem cell extraction. International declarations and guidelines protect the two most vulnerable participants of embryonic stem cell research: women who donate eggs for research purposes and human embryos that are destroyed in the research. In 2005, South Korea passed …
The Need For Effective Licensure Laws For Mid-Level Health Care Providers In Countries Facing Chronic Physician Shortages: A Case Study Of The Marshall Islands' Health Assistants, Jeffrey P. Lane
Washington International Law Journal
Facing a global physician shortage and high international emigration rates, developing countries are increasingly looking to mid-level health care providers to provide critical primary health care services. Mid-level providers have more training than nurses but less than full physicians and are typically authorized to prescribe medications and perform simple medical procedures. As the demand for health care providers continues to grow, mid-level providers are increasingly being asked to provide a broader array of clinical services. In response to this growing need, mid-level providers are increasingly practicing outside of their licensed scope of practice, which may both compromise patient safety and …
Book Review - Uninsured In America: Life And Death In The Land Of Opportunity, Elizabeth Pendo
Book Review - Uninsured In America: Life And Death In The Land Of Opportunity, Elizabeth Pendo
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Health care reform tops our national policy agenda, ranking second only behind Iraq as the issue that the public wants the 2008 Presidential candidates to address. This is no surprise, as health care spending represents nearly one out of every six dollars spent in the national economy, costs continue to climb, and health insurance is increasingly hard to get, keep, and afford. The numbers are staggering, and numbing. Most of us have heard that 46.5 million people were without insurance for the entire year in 2006, and nearly 89.6 million people were without insurance for some period during 2006 or …
Toward A Legislative Solution To The Growing Hiv/Aids Epidemic In Russia: A Case For Expanded Health Privacy, Carrie C. Gage
Toward A Legislative Solution To The Growing Hiv/Aids Epidemic In Russia: A Case For Expanded Health Privacy, Carrie C. Gage
Washington International Law Journal
The Russian Federation faces one of the fastest growing rates of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (“HIV”) infection in the world. In 1995, Russia adopted comprehensive legislation addressing HIV and the disease caused by this virus, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (“AIDS”). The legislation prohibited discrimination based on HIV infection and provided access to medical care for people living with HIV/AIDS. Having recognized that Injecting Drug Users involved in sex work will likely act as a bridge to the general population, the Russian government has recently taken greater steps to curb transmission. Russia has moved to decriminalize the distribution of hypodermic needles for …
Disability, Equipment Barriers And Women’S Health: Using The Ada To Provide Meaningful Access, Elizabeth Pendo
Disability, Equipment Barriers And Women’S Health: Using The Ada To Provide Meaningful Access, Elizabeth Pendo
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It is well-known that people with disabilities face multiple barriers to adequate health care, including lower average incomes, disproportionate poverty, and issues with insurance coverage. This article focuses on a more fundamental barrier-one that has not been discussed in the legal literature-inaccessible medical equipment and its effect on the delivery of women's health care to millions of women with disabilities .