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Institutional Ethics Committees: Should We Kill All The Lawyers - The Role Of Lawyers On Hospital Ethics Committees, Joanna K. Weinberg

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

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Closing The Gaps In Human Subject Research Law: Regulating Clinical Research Conducted Outside Of The United States, Jennifer S. Bard

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

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Teaching Medical Students How To Reconcile Law And Ethics In Practice: A Faculty Development Model, Marshall B. Kapp, Dennis Baker, Gregory Turner

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

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Advancing Health Law & Social Justice In The Clinic, The Classroom And The Community, Emily A. Benfer, John Ammann, Lisa Bliss, Sylvia Caley, Elizabeth Tobin Tyler, Robert Pettignano

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

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Using Mind Mapping To Bridge The Gap In Teaching Health Law To Non-Law Students, Stacey B. Lee

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

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Hela Cells And Unjust Enrichment In The Human Body, Deleso A. Alford

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

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Legal Methods For Medical Professionals: Implementing A Medical School Rotation In The Law School To Promote Greater Cooperation And Understanding Between The Professions, Christine Coughlan

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

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Table Of Contents, Annals Of Health Law

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

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Foreword, Daniel Marino, Lawrence Singer, Megan Bess, John Blum

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

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Beyond Safe And Effective: The Role Of The Federal Government In Supporting And Disseminating Comparative-Effectiveness Research, Maggie H. Francis

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

Over the past century, medical advancements have resulted in tremendous health gains for Americans. Although the federal government has played a prominent role in ensuring that new treatments are safe and effective, questions about which medical treatments work best under which circumstances have largely remained unanswered. Thus, the federal government's recent major investments in comparative-effectiveness research have potential to play a significant role in helping both patients and health care providers navigate the vast array of available treatment options, as well as in improving the quality, efficiency, and delivery of health care system-wide. Yet, the controversial nature of the government's …

Can The Fda Improve Oversight Of Foreign Clinical Trials: Closing The Information Gap And Moving Towards A Globalized Regulatory Scheme, Andre Ourso

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

Currently, pharmaceutical companies' utilization of foreign clinical trial data is a ubiquitous and indispensable aspect of gaining approval to market drugs in the United States. Cost benefits, a larger pool of ready volunteer subjects, and greater efficiency in clinical testing are some of the reasons for conducting clinical trials overseas. Despite these advantages, lack of proper oversight may have serious public health implications regarding the integrity of clinical research, ethical treatment of human subjects, and drug safety. Due to the expansive global nature of foreign clinical trials, there are concerns with the FDA's ability to monitor and regulate these trials. …

Prescription Data Mining, Medical Privacy And The First Amendment: The U.S. Supreme Court In Sorrell V. Ims Health Inc., Marcia M. Boumil, Kaitlyn Dunn, Nancy Ryan, Katrina Clearwater

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

In 2011, the United States Supreme Court in Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc. struck down a Vermont law that would restrict the ability of pharmaceutical companies to purchase certain physician-identifiable prescription data without the consent of the prescriber. The law's stated purpose was threefold: to protect the privacy of medical information, to protect the public health and to contain healthcare costs by promoting Vermont's preference in having physicians prescribe more generic drugs. The issue before the Supreme Court was whether the Vermont law represented a legitimate, common sense regulatory program or a bold attempt to suppress commercial speech when the …

Foreword, Christopher Carlson, Daniel Marino, Lawrence Singer, Megan Bess, John Blum

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

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Informed Consent Beyond The Physician-Patient Encounter: Tort Law Implications Of Extra-Clinical Decision Support Tools, Nadia N. Sawicki

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

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Financial Conflicts Of Interest In Science, Joanna K. Sax

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

This Article proposes a new direction for addressing financial conflicts of interest, which plague biomedical research and threaten scientific integrity. This Article descriptively states the controversy surrounding financial conflicts of interest by explaining how these conflicts arise and the damage that can be created as a result. By describing the scientific process, the Article explains that changes to the academic environment may allow the public-private interaction to proceed, without creating the problems associated with financial conflicts of interest.

Financial conflicts of interest are created when the profit-seeking motive of a private funding source unduly influences an academic scientist's primary responsibilities. …

The London Paralympis Games 'Inspire A Generation' And Spark Abortion Controversy, Emily Hardy

Public Interest Law Reporter

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Symposium: Theory And Praxis In Reducing Women’S Poverty, Annette Appell, Emily Benfer, Davida Finger

Faculty Publications & Other Works

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Medicaid Governance In The Wake Of National Federation Of Independent Business V. Sebelius: Finding Federalism's Middle Pathway, From Administrative Law To State Compacts., John D. Blum, Gayland O. Hethcoat Ii

Faculty Publications & Other Works

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Advancing Health Law & Social Justice In The Clinic, The Classroom And The Community, Emily Benfer, John Ammann, Lisa Bliss, Sylvia Caley, Robert Pettignano, Elizabeth Tobin Tyler

Faculty Publications & Other Works

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Informed Consent Beyond The Physician-Patient Encounter: Tort Law Implications Of Extra-Clinical Decision Support Tools., Nadia N. Sawicki

Faculty Publications & Other Works

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Health Justice Project: A Collaborative Commitment To Solving Real World Problems, Emily Benfer

Faculty Publications & Other Works

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Charity Care: How Much Of A Good Thing?, Graham Bowman

Public Interest Law Reporter

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Growing The Toolbox: Diverse Strategies For Public Interest Lawyers In Campaigns To Expand Access To Health Care For Low-Income People, John Bouman

Public Interest Law Reporter

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The Invisible Uninsured: Non-Citizens And Access To Health Care Coverage Under The Affordable Care Act, Stephanie Altman, Gene Stephens, Annika Yates

Public Interest Law Reporter

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Barefoot And Pregnant: How The Patient Protection Affordable Care Act Will Leave Young Mothers To Fend For Themselves, Tyler Hanson

Public Interest Law Reporter

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Madness In The Hole: Solitary Confinement And Mental Health Of Prison Inmates, Emily Coffey

Public Interest Law Reporter

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The Schizophrenia Of Physician Extender Utilization, Thomas R. Mclean

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 provides incentives for healthcare to be delivered by Affordable Care Organizations (ACOs). The public face of many, if not most, ACOs is likely to be the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMHs), a business structure that evolved from Retail Medical Clinics, which made greater use of physician extenders (PAs). Accordingly, this paper examines the evolution and structure of PCMHs as well as how the PCMH is regulated. As neither legal or market regulatory mechanisms are ideal for policing business structures that employ PAs, this paper concludes that the tort reform most appropriate …

Using Law To Fight A Silent Epidemic: The Role Of Healthy Literacy In Health Care Access, Quality & Cost, Brietta Clark

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

The dominant rhetoric in the health care policy debate about cost has assumed an inherent tension between access and quality on the one hand, and cost effectiveness on the other; but an emerging discourse has challenged this narrative by presenting a more nuanced relationship between access, quality, and cost. This is reflected in the discourse surrounding health literacy, which is viewed as an important tool for achieving all three goals. Health literacy refers to one's ability to obtain, understand and use health information to make appropriate health decisions. Research shows that improving patients' health literacy can help overcome access barriers …

Lebron V. Gottlieb Memorial Hospital: Capping Medical Practice Reform In Illinois, Leonard Nelson, Amanda Swanson, Marianne Buckley

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

On February 4, 2010 the Illinois Supreme Court struck down Illinois' medical practice reform bill, P.A. 94-677, when it decided Lebron v. Gottlieb Memorial Hospital. Although the court only considered the unconstitutionality of the cap on non-economic damages contained in that bill, an inseverability provision resulted in the invalidation of all of its provisions. The end result of the Lebron decision extends much further than the striking of the cap on non-economic damages. It affects such areas as medical liability insurance law, physician discipline, public disclosure of information, the admissibility of physician statements into evidence, and expert witness standards. …

Foreword, Joseph Van Leer, Lawrence Singer, Megan Bess, John Blum

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

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