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  • Assisted Death for Psychiatric Suffering: Approaching Uncertainty with Humility

    by Zain Khalid On May 22 this year, Zoraya Ter Beek, a 29-year-old woman from Netherlands, died by euthanasia on grounds of mental suffering. Zoraya had been diagnosed with chronic depression, borderline personality disorder, and autism and had struggled with self-harm and suicidal thinking for several year. She had tried numerous treatments, including 30 sessions of […]

  • Ghost Networks and Mental Healthcare

    by Rebekah Ninan A recent lawsuit in the Southern District of New York has alleged that the health insurance company Anthem Blue and Cross Blue Shield violated state laws and committed fraud by maintaining “ghost networks” of mental health providers. Ghost networks are directories for insurance companies that contain outdated or inaccurate information about providers covered […]

  • What Type of Salt Should You Buy? Rethinking 1924 Food Fortification Policy in 2024

    by Jessica Samuels For 100 years, food fortification, the practice of deliberately increasing the content of vitamins and minerals in a food, has been essential to combating public health crises. However, these practices have continued into the modern era. Because overconsumption of nutrients has been linked to toxicity and diseases, public health officials should continue to […]

  • Alabama’s Maternity Care Desert Crisis: An Evaluation of Potential Policy Reforms

    by Rupa Palanki The United States increasingly faces a crisis in maternal and infant health care. Over 2.3 million American women of reproductive age live in maternity care deserts — counties with little to no access to birthing centers and obstetric care. These deserts often result from rural hospital closures, health care provider shortages, and […]

  • Abortion debt: revolutionary acts and reclamations of care

    Photo credit: Melisa Slep by Rishita Nandagiri and Lucía Berro Pizzarossa Discussions about abortion tend to be dominated by considerations pertaining to medicine (e.g., “safety”) and law (e.g., “legality”). Medication abortion — misoprostol alone or in combination with mifepristone — has dramatically shifted these discussions. Brazilian women used misoprostol to self-manage their abortions in the […]

  • Open Genomics and Privacy: New Case Law in South Africa Affirms a Key Principle

    by Donrich Thaldar As the era of genomic medicine dawns, large-scale genomics projects are becoming increasingly central to health care advancements. Projects like FinnGen in Finland, the UK Biobank, and the All of Us initiative in the United States are charting new frontiers in precision medicine, enabling researchers to unlock the genetic codes underlying a […]

  • Legal Responses to the Potential Dangers of Menstrual Products

    by Rebekah Ninan This summer, a startling study from researchers at University of California, Berkeley revealed tampons from several brands contain toxic heavy metals like lead, arsenic, and cadmium. This finding follows the 2023 discovery that many menstrual products contain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), even those marketed as PFAS-free. All of these contaminants are […]

  • When AI Turns Miscarriage into Murder: The Alarming Criminalization of Pregnancy in the Digital Age

    by Abeer Malik Imagine: Overjoyed at your pregnancy, you eagerly track every milestone, logging daily habits and symptoms into a pregnancy app. Then tragedy strikes—a miscarriage. Amidst your grief, authorities knock at your door. They’ve been monitoring your digital data and now question your behavior during pregnancy, possibly building a case against you using your […]

  • The Global Challenge of Unhealthy Diets: Front-of-Package Labeling for America

    by Alice Bryk Silveira The alarming rise in diabetes and obesity rates in the United States has placed significant strain on health care systems and poses a serious public health threat. Americans’ overconsumption of ultra-processed foods high in sugar, salt and unhealthy fats is a concerning contributor. Globally, poor nutrition from such dietary habits plays […]

  • TikTok, Tobacco, and Addiction, Oh My!

    by Jessica Samuels On October 8, 13 states and the District of Columbia sued TikTok, alleging that the social media company’s algorithm is designed to “promote excessive, compulsive, and addictive use” in children. While each state’s complaint was filed separately in state court, the cases are coordinated around the claim that TikTok’s design is deliberately […]

Introducing Ted Ruger

August 31, 2012August 31, 2012 The Petrie-Flom Center Staff Leave a comment

We’re excited to introduce and welcome Ted Ruger to our blogging community as a regular contributor.  You can start to expect posts from Ted a bit later in the fall, as he clears a few things off his desk.

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Introducing Bill Sage

August 31, 2012August 31, 2012 The Petrie-Flom Center Staff Leave a comment

We’re excited to introduce and welcome Bill Sage to our blogging community as an occasional contributor.

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Introducing Laura Stark

August 31, 2012August 31, 2012 The Petrie-Flom Center Staff Leave a comment

We’re excited to introduce and welcome Laura Stark to our blogging community as a regular contributor.

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Introducing Erin Talati

August 31, 2012August 31, 2012 The Petrie-Flom Center Staff Leave a comment

We’re excited to introduce and welcome Erin Talati to our blogging community as a regular contributor.

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Introducing Nicolas P. Terry

August 31, 2012August 7, 2018 Nicolas P. Terry Leave a comment

We’re excited to introduce and welcome Nic Terry to our blogging community.  He is one of the permanent bloggers at the HealthLawProf blog, with whom we are collaborating.

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Introducing Katharine Van Tassel

August 31, 2012August 31, 2012 The Petrie-Flom Center Staff Leave a comment

We’re excited to introduce and welcome Katharine Van Tassel to our blogging community.  She is the Editor of the Health Law Prof Blog, as well as a Contributing Editor of the blog Bio Law: Law and the Life Sciences, and will be cross-posting material here.

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Introducing Dan Vorhaus

August 31, 2012August 31, 2012 The Petrie-Flom Center Staff Leave a comment

We’re excited to introduce and welcome Dan Vorhaus to our blogging community. He is Editor of the Genomics Law Report, and will be cross-posting from that blog here.  He’s also active on Twitter – follow him @genomicslawyer.

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