...Mark A. Hall National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, the Supreme Court's ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, is a landmark decision — both for constitutional law and for health care law and policy. Others will study its implications for constitutional limits...

...William H. Dow; Dean M. Harris; Zhimei Liu In the mid-1990s, many states as well as the federal government began to regulate early postpartum hospital discharge. Length-of-stay patterns changed markedly in response, but effects were much greater in some states than others. In particular, laws...

...Bhaven N. Sampat; Tahir Amin The 1995 Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement required developing countries to grant product patents in pharmaceuticals. Developing countries have since explored various measures to ameliorate potential negative effects of the new laws on public...

... administrative procedures, including notice and comment, immediate review in the courts, and White House oversight. This article explores two questions. First, is the state-by-state approach a lawful exercise of HHS's authority? Second, did HHS in fact evade the procedural obligations that are meant to shape the...

...Matthew W. Chapman; Jane Cassels Record The future of physician's assistants and nurse practitioners will be shaped at least in part by whether, and on what terms, they are defensible at law. This paper explores the way in which the principles of tort law might define primary and secondary...

... assistance from the University of Minnesota Department of Applied Statistics Research Note The Effect of Federal Drug Law on the Incidence of Drug Abuse James Christopher Anthony, The Johns Hopkins University Abskact. The Controlled Substances Act...

...Andrew K. Dolan This article surveys recent developments in federal antitrust law regarding the health professions and the delivery of medical care. In the last four years there has been a steady erosion of the affirmative defenses traditionally available to health care providers, both...

... Experiments: Policy, Individual Rights, and the Law* Trudi W. Galblum, Health Care Financing Administration Abstract. In a climate of increasing pressure to contain health care costs, legislators and health services researchers from time to time have proposed experiments involving...

...Peter D. Jacobson; Jeffrey Wasserman; Anda Botoseneanu; Amy Silverstein; Helen W. Wu We report the results of a study designed to assess and evaluate how the law shapes the public health system's preparedness activities. Based on 144 qualitative interviews conducted in nine states, we used a model...

...Sarah E. Gollust Kirkland Anna . Vaccine Court: The Law and Politics of Injury . New York : New York University Press , 2016 . 288 pp. $40.00 cloth. Wadman Meredith . The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease . New York : Viking , 2017 . 448 pp...

... viewing as a necessary part of patients’ abortion decision making, these laws aim to control and constrain how women make personal decisions about their bodies and parenthood. To date, however, the discussion of the impact of ultrasound viewing laws on women’s decisional autonomy has occurred in the...

... having health insurance is associated with an increase in the likelihood of receiving family planning services. Our results also suggest that many young women who would otherwise lack health insurance after aging out of foster care will be eligible for Medicaid under the health care reform law. Because...

...Robyn Martin; Alexandra Conseil This article provides a critical portrait of the current state of public health policies and laws governing pandemic influenza prevention and control in Europe. It examines the role of and relationship between national public health policy and national communicable...

...Eugene Declercq Raymond DeVries, Regulating Birth: Medicine, Midwives and the Law (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1985), 194 pp., $29.95. Ann Oakley, The Captured Womb: A History of the Medical Care of Pregnant Women (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1984), 337 pp., $24.95 Copyright...

...David Orentlicher John Griffiths, Alex Bood, and Heleen Weyers. Euthanasia and Law in the Netherlands . Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1998. 382 pp.$44.50 cloth. © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Curran, William J., Mark A. Hall, Mary Anne Bobinski, and David Orentlicher. 1998...

...Clark C. Havighurst; Peter Barton Hutt; Barbara J. McNeil; Wilhelmine Miller © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Bovbjerg, Randall. 1975 . The Medical Malpractice Standard of Care: HMOs and Customary Practice. Duke Law Journal 1975 : 1375 -1414. Eddy, David M. 1996 . Benefit Language...

... medical expertise for the practice of science-based medical evidence; and, the central elements of any meaningful change in legal assessments of expertise in medicine and health care. © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Angell, Marcia. 1996 . Science on Trial: The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law...

... Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Ways and Means , 103d Cong., 1st sess., Ser. No. 103–123. Angell, M. 1997 . Science on Trial: The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case . New York: W. W. Norton. Begel, J. 1995 . Maine Physician Practice Guidelines:Implications for...