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2007

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The Plan B For Plan B: The New Dual Over-The-Counter And Prescription Status Of Plan B And Its Impact Upon Pharmacists, Consumers, And Conscience Clauses, Brittany L. Grimes Jan 2007

The Plan B For Plan B: The New Dual Over-The-Counter And Prescription Status Of Plan B And Its Impact Upon Pharmacists, Consumers, And Conscience Clauses, Brittany L. Grimes

Georgia Law Review

On August 24,2006, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration decided to approve Plan B, the "morning-after"contraceptive pill, as an over-the-counter drug for women ages eighteen and older only. Individuals aged seventeen years and younger must still obtain a prescription in order to purchase Plan B, resulting in confusion and complications in implementing the age limitation. Additionally, the dual status of Plan B as both a prescription and over-the-counter drug might still be undermined by pharmacists choosing to refuse sale of contraceptives under various state protective conscience clauses. This Note explores the impact of the FDA's novel decision to create a …

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A Mystery Of Motherhood: The Legal Consequences Of Insufficient Research On Postpartum Illness, Lindsey C. Perry Jan 2007

A Mystery Of Motherhood: The Legal Consequences Of Insufficient Research On Postpartum Illness, Lindsey C. Perry

Georgia Law Review

Postpartum illness is a real and serious affliction, suffered by many mothers throughout the country. For decades, courts have struggled with the issue of how postpartum illness fits into the current framework for legal insanity. Recent publicity of the Andrea Yates trial and her subsequent acquittal brought postpartum psychosis to the attention of the American public. This Note explores the background of postpartum psychosis and its treatment in U.S. courts. It discusses the possibilities for addressing postpartum psychosis in criminal proceedings and proposes that further research and understanding are necessary to provide justice for female defendants afflicted with postpartum psychosis. …

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Trans Fat: Can New York City Save Its Citizens From This "Metabolic Poison"?, Elizabeth Y. Spivey Jan 2007

Trans Fat: Can New York City Save Its Citizens From This "Metabolic Poison"?, Elizabeth Y. Spivey

Georgia Law Review

Trans fat was developed by chemists at the turn of the century and became an increasingly large part of the American diet. Trans fat in the form of partially hydrogenated vegetable oil now makes up 2% of all calories consumed in the United States. In the past two decades, studies have shown that artificially created trans fat increases cholesterol and increases the risk of coronary heart disease, heart attack, and type II diabetes. In response to these health concerns, New York City's Board of Health voted to ban trans fat from restaurant fare in December 2006. Other cities and local …

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Joe Stell's Life, Career, & Contributions, Susan Kelly Jan 2007

Joe Stell's Life, Career, & Contributions, Susan Kelly

Water Matters!

Representative Joe Stell's retirement after 20 years in the New Mexico Legislature has many people wondering: How will we fare without his knowledge and history ofNew Mexico water matters? Stell viewed one of his most important roles as that of helping new legislators get up to speed on w ater issues. We hope that Water Matters! may assist in this role by providing legislators with background information on some of the issues they will encounter. The Utton Center also wanted to acknowledge Joe Stell's outstanding service to New Mexico, and we have therefore included a brief sketch about his career, …

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Cigarette Smoking As A Public Health Hazard: Crafting Common Law And Legislative Strategies For Abatemen, George P. Smith Ii Jan 2007

Cigarette Smoking As A Public Health Hazard: Crafting Common Law And Legislative Strategies For Abatemen, George P. Smith Ii

Scholarly Articles

The debate over when, and to what extent, the government may regulate public smoking, is a contentious one of great moment. The point at which the line will be drawn with regard to an individual's right to smoke in public is narrowing. This right may stop at public restaurants and the workplace; or it may reach as far as public stadia, outdoor gathering spots and public streets. In 2006, one report showed 461 municipalities in thirty-three states and the District of Columbia, had adopted one-hundred percent smoke-free coverage in restaurants, bars or workplaces; and 135 municipalities had one-hundred percent coverage …

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Policy Making And The New Medicine: Managing A Magnificent Obsession, George P. Smith Ii Jan 2007

Policy Making And The New Medicine: Managing A Magnificent Obsession, George P. Smith Ii

Scholarly Articles

Scientific issues become - inevitably - political issues because of one principal fact: they put in focus the extent to which the government can restrict private medical research undertakings - either in the name of generational safety, morality or the public good. The multiple and varied concerns of applying the New Medicine, derived as such from the New Biology, conduce - essentially - to a suspicion continued reductionism in the biological analysis of humans will erode the notions of autonomy, dignity and personal integrity that have traditionally justified the constitutional protection of civil liberties. Driven by painful technologies and sciences, …

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Unenumerated Rights And The Limits Of Analogy: A Critque Of The Right To Medical Self-Defense, O. Carter Snead Jan 2007

Unenumerated Rights And The Limits Of Analogy: A Critque Of The Right To Medical Self-Defense, O. Carter Snead

Journal Articles

Volokh’s project stands or falls with the claim that the entitlement he proposes is of constitutional dimension. If there is no fundamental right to medical self-defense, the individual must, for better or worse, yield to the regulation of this domain in the name of the values agreed to by the political branches of government. Indeed, the government routinely restricts the instrumentalities of self-help (including self-defense) in the name of avoiding what it takes to be more significant harms. This same rationale accounts for current governmental limitations on access to unapproved drugs and the current ban on organ sales. The FDA …

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Some Personal Aspects Of End-Of-Life Decisionmaking, James L. Werth Jr. Jan 2007

Some Personal Aspects Of End-Of-Life Decisionmaking, James L. Werth Jr.

University of Miami Law Review

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