China Milk Scandal Convictions Upheld

A Chinese court has upheld the sentences of the people held responsible for the melamine milk contamination scandal that killed 6 babies and sickened more than 300,000 children in China late last year.
The trials which began late December last year handed out a death sentence to Zhang Yujun, convicted of producing and selling the tainted [...]

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

Dangerous Perspectives: The Perils of Individualizing Public Health Problems
Wendy E. Parmet
Northeastern University – School of Law
Northeastern University School of Law Research Paper No. 31-2009
Journal of Legal Medicine, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 83-108, 2009
Abstract:
In the spring of 2007, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that it had issued its first quarantine [...]

Federal Judge Rules that Plan B Must Be Made Available to 17-Year-Olds Without Prescriptions; Labels FDA’s Actions Political

On March 23, 2009, U.S. Federal District Judge Edward Korman, writing for the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of New York, ordered the Food and Drug Administration (the FDA) to permit Barr Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of Plan B, to make Plan B available to 17-year-olds without a prescription in the same manner as the [...]

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

Science, Politics, and Values: The Politicization of Professional Practice Guidelines
Lawrence O. Gostin
Georgetown University Law Center – O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law; Georgetown University Law Center
John Kraemer
Georgetown University – Law Center
Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 301, No. 6, pp. 665-667, 2009
Georgetown University O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law Scholarship [...]