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Sports Participation By Athletes With Cardiovascular Disease, Matthew W. Martinez, Michael J. Ackerman, George J. Annas, Aaron L. Baggish, Sharlene M. Day, Kimberly G. Harmon, Jonathan H. Kim, Benjamin D. Levine, Margot Putukian, Rachel Lampert

Faculty Scholarship

Millions of young people participate in competitive sports, with well-documented physical and psychological benefits.1 Athletes may be diagnosed with cardiovascular disease (CVD) during evaluation of symptoms, routine preparticipation screening, or clinically indicated family screening. When this occurs, decisions about return-to-play (RTP) are difficult, especially in circumstances when risk may exist or be unknown. Historically, expert consensus documents such as the Bethesda Conference Proceedings,2 provided a “yes/no” approach to RTP after a diagnosis of a CVD such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) or long QT syndrome (LQTS). These recommendations were made with a paucity of data, and were predicated on a zero-risk …

Systemic Failures In Health Care Oversight, Julie L. Campbell

Georgia Law Review

Hospitals are intentionally shirking their duty to identify and report incompetent medical practitioners, and it is causing catastrophic injuries to patients. Why are hospitals doing this? Two decades of health care reforms have changed the way physicians and hospitals interact in the U.S. health care system, and as a result, the traditional health care oversight tools no longer work to ensure physician competence. With three out of four physicians now employees of hospitals or health care systems, hospitals have become the guardians of both the internal and external warning systems designed to flag incompetent practitioners. As the guardians, hospitals are …

‘Rounding Up’ Roundup: One Last Hope For Glyphosate Regulation, Gabrielle Argimón-Cartaya

University of Miami Law Review

Since 1974, Bayer’s Roundup remains the world’s most popular herbicide and pervades United States farmland and food production. However, in 2015, Roundup landed centerstage in an international and presently unsettled debate over whether its active ingredient, glyphosate, causes cancer. Environmental groups regularly call for the de-registration of glyphosate due to the plethora of ailments, ecological harm, and weed resistance resulting from glyphosate use. Dissenting experts, however, believe that strict bans would devastate agriculture because of global dependence and the lack of any popular alternatives. Faced with mounting litigation, silence from the highest court, and unreliable regulators, Bayer continues to effect …

Public Health Impacts And Intra-Urban Forced Displacement Due To Climate Gentrification In The Greater Miami Area—Community Lawyering For Environmental Justice And Equitable Development, Theresa Pinto, Abigail L. Fleming, Sabrina Payoute, Elissa Klein

University of Miami Law Review

Because Miami-Dade County is “ground zero” for such climate effects as sea-level rise and increasingly hazardous, climate-driven Atlantic hurricanes, the coral rock ridge that runs along the Eastern coast of South Florida is a prime target for redevelopment and “climate” gentrification. Through a community and movement lawyering for environmental justice approach, we partnered with local community organizations to contribute to the ongoing work of community-driven equitable development. In partnership, we developed an environmental public health study to understand and document the public health effects on disadvantaged communities in Miami-Dade County from forced intra-urban displacement due to redevelopment that is being …

U.S. Food & Drug Administration V. Alliance For Hippocratic Medicine: Brief For Food And Drug Law Scholars And Professors As Amici Curiae Supporting Petitioners And Reversal, Rebecca S. Eisenberg

Appellate Briefs

Amici curiae are U.S. food and drug law scholars and professors from academic institutions across the United States. A full list of amici is included as an Appendix to this brief. Amici have expertise in food and drug law, including the drug approval process and regulation of pharmaceuticals under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA), 21 U.S.C. § 301 et seq. Amici submit this brief to address important issues raised by this case concerning the authority of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) to regulate prescription drugs.

The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act …

P*Law 2024, Center For Public Service Law

2023–2024 Flyers

This document outlines the full schedule for P*LAW Week 2024 at Cardozo School of Law, hosted by the Center for Public Service Law. Held from January 29 to February 1, the week featured panels, workshops, and student-led presentations on critical public interest topics, including immigration, incarceration, housing justice, student debt, reproductive rights, and exoneration. With contributions from legal professionals, alumni, faculty, and students, the events provided education, mentorship, and career development opportunities for those pursuing paths in public interest law.

Growing Pains: An Arkansas Case Study On Adolescent Autonomy And Access To Puberty Blockers For Gender-Affirming Care, Katherine T. Litaker

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

Arkansas Act 626 outlaws any gender-affirming medical treatment for persons under eighteen years of age. This Note focuses on the evolving litigation surrounding Arkansas Act 626, the potential repercussions of the issues facing transgender adolescents, and the legal protections that may be implemented whether or not Arkansas Act 626 is upheld as a constitutional piece of legislation. It begins by examining the standard bases for administering puberty blocker treatments and addressing many of the misconceptions in medical treatment that have influenced the shaping of legislation on transgender healthcare. The Note discusses the current legal barricades for adolescents trying to access …

The Right To Procreate By Nontraditional Methods, Elizabeth Kreager

St. Mary's Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Cracking Down On Egg Law: Legal Discrepancies Impacting Sales Of Ungraded Eggs In Texas, Parker Benton

St. Mary's Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Legal, Policy, And Environmental Scholars Discuss Global Food Systems At Indiana Law Symposium, James Owsley Boyd

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The Indiana University Maurer School of Law and its Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies are hosting scholars from around the country Friday and Saturday (Jan. 19-20) for an interdisciplinary discussion on one of the world’s most prevalent problems—food insecurity.

Data from the World Bank estimate more than 780 million people around the world suffered from chronic hunger in 2022. As climate change affects agricultural production and water accessibility, the problem could worsen in coming years.

“A Fragile Framework: How Global Food Systems Intersect with the International Legal Order, the Environment, and the World’s Populations” will bring together legal, policy, …

Innovative Virtual Wellness Interventions At An Academic Medical Center: A Pilot Feasibility Study, Ritika Baweja, Michael Hayes, Aditya Joshi, Raman Baweja

Journal of Wellness

Introduction: There is generally a concerning likelihood of burnout in healthcare workers. Given the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare workers, our institution identified the need for wellness interventions to foster adaptive functioning and mitigate burnout. The purpose of this pilot project was to assess the feasibility of virtual holistic interventions like meditation, art, laughter therapy and dance and their impact on overall well-being of physicians and advanced practice providers (APPs).

Methods: A series of 12 virtual sessions (art therapy, dance therapy, mindfulness-based practices/meditation and laughter therapy) were offered to providers over a 6-month period. Participants completed an online survey reporting …

Refugee Health In Philadelphia, Marc Altshuler, Md

Academic Commons Workshops and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Video Endoscopy As Big Data: Balancing Privacy And Progress In Gastroenterology, Eugenia N. Uche-Anya, Sara Gerke, Tyler M. Berzin

Faculty Scholarly Works

Tens of millions of gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy videos and images are generated annually in the United States (¹). A single 15-minute endoscopic procedure, recorded at 30 frames per second, generates approximately 27,000 high-definition images, representing a treasure trove of potential data. In the era of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), this data stream will not only fuel innovative and clinically impactful research in gastroenterology for both academic and commercial purposes, but also introduce ethical and legal concerns that merit consideration. Gastroenterologists are now faced with navigating new questions around data privacy and data ownership that have …

Healthcare Fraud And Abuse: Continued Lessons Learned From High Performing Healthcare Organizations, Julie L. Agris

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

No abstract provided.

Reproductive Justice At Work: Employment Law After Dobbs V. Jackson Women’S Health Organization, Laura T. Kessler

Utah Law Faculty Scholarship

In June 2022, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, landmark decisions which held that the U.S. Constitution protected a right to abortion prior to fetal viability. Overnight, about 64 million American women of childbearing age potentially lost the right to decide what happens in their own bodies. In the two years since the decision, seventeen states have made most or all abortions illegal, with the fight over abortion still taking place in state and federal courts. Experts across fields have explored the decision's effects on health, economic …

How Viable Is Viability? Artificial Womb Technology And The Threat To Abortion Access, James E. Brown

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

The viability standard plays an important role in abortion access around much of the United States. In fact, before the Dobbs decision, the viability standard was the constitutional gatekeeper to abortion access and was uniform across the entire nation. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court has removed the constitutional right to abortion altogether. Nevertheless, I will provide an argument as to why Dobbs does not signal the end of viability-based abortion around the U.S. I will prove the importance of the viability standard even in a post-Dobbs society, highlighting its operation within various state laws, such as Michigan’s Prop. 3, as well …

Patients Versus Profits, Isaac ("Zack") D. Buck

Scholarly Works

Private equity (PE) has come to health care. With it: layoffs, cuts, and new pressures for providers, higher prices for payers, and questions from patients about quality and excessive care. PE firms, driven solely by a profit motive, take over health care entities, “lean” them down, load them with debt, and hope to extract a profit for their investors when they sell the hospital, physician group, or nursing home. Their entry into health care has been stealthy but dramatic: upwards of a third of all for-profit hospitals in the United States, and 40 percent of America’s emergency rooms, are now …

Safe Babies, Safe Moms: A Multifaceted, Trauma Informed Care Initiative, Loral Patchen, Asli Mccullers, Charmain Beach, Melanie Browning, Shy Porter, Aimee Danielson, Evelyn Asegieme, S. Roxana Richardson, Ali Jost, Caitlin S. Jensen, Naheed Ahmed

HJA Scholarship

Purpose

This report describes a multifaceted, trauma-informed initiative developed to address racial/ethnic maternal and infant health inequities in Washington, D.C.

Description

Structural racism and systemic oppression of marginalized communities have played a critical role in maternal and infant health inequities in the United States. Black birthing individuals are exponentially more likely to experience adverse birth outcomes, including preterm birth, low birth weight and maternal mortality. In response to these statistics, the Safe Babies Safe Moms (SBSM) initiative was developed to support patients of marginalized identities and improve health outcomes. SBSM Women’s and Infants’ Services Specialty Care (WIS-SC) is one component …

Foreword, Kathryn Van Sistine

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

No abstract provided.

Telehealth Solutions For Black Maternal Health, Katherine "Yenny" Wu

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

No abstract provided.