Supreme Court permits Maine Residents to Sue Tobacco Company

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Bush Administration Issued Last-Minute Rule Reinforcing Protections for Health Care Workers’ Conscientious Objections

In the Bush administration’s final days in power, the Bush administration issued a federal rule reinforcing protections for doctors and other health care workers who conscientiously object and refuse to perform abortions or other procedures due to religious or moral objections. 
Under existing federal law, health institutions are not permitted to discriminate against individuals who refuse to perform [...]

Scholar’s Corner: Recent Scholarly Works in Global Health Law

 President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: Health Development at the Crossroads
 
Lawrence O. Gostin
Georgetown University Law Center – O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law; Georgetown University Law Center

JAMA, Vol. 300, pp. 2046-48, 2008
Georgetown University O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law Scholarship Paper No. 18

Abstract:     
The President’s Emergency Plan for [...]

Gates Foundation funds global health news coverage

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $3.5 million grant to “The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer” to help its correspondents produce 40 to 50 reports over three years on malaria, AIDS,  tuberculosis, measles, neglected diseases and other global health issues, reports The New York Times.
The plan is to use the money to produce 40 to 50 [...]

US spending on generic drugs drops

Due to fierce competition among drug manufacturers and pressure from insurers lowered prices, American consumers and health insurers saved about $1 billion on generic drugs in the past 12 months ending September, reports IMS Health.
According to the report, total spending on generic drugs reduced by 2.7 percent to $33 billion, the biggest decline in [...]

Former Senator Daschle Picked by Obama to Reform Health Care

As reported earlier, former Senator Tom Daschle was picked by President Elect Barack Obama to head up the Department of Health and Human Services.   As recently announced, Senator Daschle will also would also be the director of the newly-created “White House Office of Health Reform.”  Mr. Daschle, in Obama’s words, will be the “lead architect” of proposals to [...]

Scholar’s Corner: Recent Scholarly Works in Global Health Law

The Ethical Health Lawyer: An Empirical Assessment of Moral Decision Making

Joshua E. Perry, Vanderbilt University Medical Center – Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society
Ilene N. Moore, affiliation not provided to SSRN
Bruce Barry, Vanderbilt University
Ellen Wright Clayton, Vanderbilt University School of Law
Amanda R. Carrico, Vanderbilt University
December 10, 2008
Abstract:
Writing in 1999, legal ethics scholar Brad [...]

Cancer to be the World’s Leading Killer by 2010

According to the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, cancer will overtake heart disease as the world’s leading cause of death by 2010. The increase in mortality attributable to cancer is due, in large part, to the increase of tobacco consumption in developing countries–particularly in China and India, where 40% of the [...]

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Turns 60

On Wednesday, December 10, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, considered the foundation of international human rights law and the first universal statement on the basic principles of inalienable human rights, turned 60.  The declaration was passed in recognition of “the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human [...]

Duke University to Establish New Global Health Masters

Add another university to the list of those that have opened their doors to the field of global health.  Duke University is set to join NYU’s Masters in Global Public Health, George Washington’s Masters of Public Health in Global Health, and UC’s recently added Masters of Science in Global Health.  And let’s not forget the LLM Masters of Law [...]