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Ownership of the Body
Posted on January 24, 2008The Ohio Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in the case, Albrecht v. Treon, involving the issue of whether an individual has a legal right to a relative?s body parts and organs. In May 2006, after an autoposy to determine how...
Diabetes and Surgery
Posted on January 23, 2008The New York Times reports today on a new study showing that "Weight-loss surgery works much better than standard medical therapy as a treatment for Type 2 diabetes in obese people, the first study to compare the two approaches has...
SCHIP Veto Override Fails Again
Posted on January 23, 2008The Gavel reports that the House Republicans "have again narrowly sustained President Bush?s veto, with a vote of 260 in favor of passage and 152 against, (15 votes short) despite the veto-proof margin in the Senate." The Gavel also has...
Updates on Flu Preparation: ACLU weighs in
Posted on January 23, 2008DemFromCt writes at the Daily Kos blog and has an update on preparations for a flu pandemic. The story reports on the ACLU report on issued last week and drafted by the illustrious George Annas and Wendy K. Mariner from...
Health Care Plans of the Candidates: Now in Handy Graphic Form
Posted on January 23, 2008Ezra Klein points out Health Care Central's helpful (if perhaps slightly imprecise) and super cool looking chart showing where the various health care plans of the current Presidential candidates line up in terms of access, coverage etc. Click here for...
Regulating Genetic Tests or Not
Posted on January 21, 2008The New York Times reported last week on a federal panel, Secretary?s Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society, which submitted a report demonstrating its concerns over the increasing use of genetic tests without the appropriate regulation and oversight...
Addressing Conflicts of Interest . . .
Posted on January 21, 2008The Associated Press reports on some steps hospitals are taking to address conflicts of interest that may arise in the pharmaceutical and medical device areas - purging trinkets! When a Duluth-based operator of hospitals and clinics purged the pens, notepads,...
The Music Genome Project is Here!
Posted on January 19, 2008I don't know how many of you suffer from the frustration of trying to find a radio station that plays only music that you like - and perhaps you are a bit tired on all the songs on your ipod...
Patent on Feelings
Posted on January 19, 2008The Wall Street Journal's Health blog reports on one of Microsoft's latest patent attempts. The story states, Say you?re sitting at your computer, typing away, and suddenly you see something ? an ominous email from the boss, maybe ? that...
Health Stories
Posted on January 18, 2008Just in time for my Health Law class, Ezra Klein helpfully points to a website that has started a video collection which provides first person accounts of numerous experiences with low-quality health care in the United States. The website is...
Drug Studies Suppressed - but only the negative ones
Posted on January 17, 2008The New England Journal of Medicine reports this week on a report showing that a majority of studies that get published about antidepressants are positive, while negative studies remain unpublished. The article is entitled: "Selective Publication of Antidepressant Trials and...
Childhood Cold Medicines and Cloned Food: Your FDA at Work
Posted on January 17, 2008The FDA announed today that cold medicines are too risky for very young children age 2 and under. They will decide later about the safety of such cold medicines for slightly older children. From the Associated Press, Parents may be...
State of Health Care: We're Number 19!!
Posted on January 09, 2008The Washington Monthly's Kevin Drum reports on the state of our health care system: A pair of researchers has just published an update that compares various countries on their rates of "amenable mortality," defined as deaths that are "potentially preventable...
New Health Care Ad
Posted on January 09, 2008ThinkProgress shows us the latest in health care advertising: CheneyCare. ThinkProgress reports, Last month, the California Nurses Association and the National Nurses Organizing Committee ran ads in Iowa newspapers advocating for a single-payer health-care bill, highlighting the fact Vice President...
Child Support from Sperm Donor
Posted on January 04, 2008Interesting case from Pennsylvania concerning the right of a private sperm donor to contract away his right to make child support payments. From the Associated Press, The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that a woman who promised a sperm donor he...
Intensive Care Revamped
Posted on January 03, 2008Atul Gawande has a great article in the December 10th New Yorker (ok, yes, I am a little behind on my reading - something about grading . . . ) concerning the use of checklists in intensive care and the...
Year's Top Ten Science and Tech Stories
Posted on January 02, 2008Will Saletan at Slate.com presents his list of the top ten "Human Interest" stories of 2007. Quite frankly, some of them were a little scary and some do provide hope for the future. For example, these two I found quite...
Bleak Bioethics Forecast for 2008
Posted on December 31, 2007Writing at MSNBC.com, Arthur Caplan predicts a bleak year on the bioethics front for 2008. He writes, Biggest disappointment One of the most exciting breakthroughs to occur last year was the simultaneous discovery of how to make a type of...
Surrogacy International
Posted on December 31, 2007Shakesville links to a recent associated press article discussing the use of Indian women as surrogates. The article raises many issues about the use of money to hire women from developing countries to bear children for other women. Shakesville states,...
Bush Signs Temporary Expansion of SCHIP
Posted on December 29, 2007Reuters reports on President Bush's signing of temporary extension of SCHIP. It states, President George W. Bush on Saturday signed into law a temporary extension of a popular health insurance program for children after months of deadlock with the Democratic-led...
California Court and Rescinding Insurance Policies
Posted on December 28, 2007A California Appellate Court made it harder for insurance companies in that state to rescind insurance policies when it had failed to check the accuracy of the applications first. The LA Times reports, California health insurers have a duty to...
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Simple answer is that you have to pay whatever the lease you signed says....
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My children's school is falsely charging me with truancy. The local district justice works for the school in the most blatently open way. And his wife works for the district, too! They have violated private health record
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