Showing posts with label law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label law. Show all posts
Friday, March 14, 2025

Lawfare and market design: New legal standard for medical malpractice

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 In the U.S. at least, a not insignificant part of medical practice (sometimes called "defensive medicine") is shaped and enforced...
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

States' fights over abortions: New York moves to shield doctors from prosecution in states with abortion bans

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  Not all politics is Federal, even in these unprecedented times. The NYT has the story: N.Y. Moves to Shield Doctors Who Send Abortion Pill...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Regulating nicotine is a cat and mouse game

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 Attempts to regulate (and tax) cigarettes and related nicotine-addicting products are a cat and mouse game. Many laws regulate "tobacc...
Thursday, December 5, 2024

Medical Treatments for Transgender Minors--Oral argument in Supreme Court

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  Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments about the Tennessee ban on transgender treatment for minors. Supreme Ct. Hears Case on Me...
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Britain moves towards legalizing medical aid in dying

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  The Guardian has the story: MPs vote for bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales Terminally ill adults with less than six mon...
Thursday, November 28, 2024

Walk free in NYC, where jaywalking is no longer a crime

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In NYC jaywalking is no longer a crime, or at least it won't be at the end of January, if I read the story correctly.  But I'm guess...
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

The labor market for Ob-Gyn docs, in states that criminalize abortion

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 States that criminalize abortion (and hence also care for miscarriages) are losing obstetricians... The New Yorker has the story: The Texas...
Sunday, October 20, 2024

Italy criminalizes surrogacy from abroad

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 Italy has banned its citizens from accessing surrogacy in other countries where it is legal.  It will be interesting to see how they enforc...
Friday, October 11, 2024

Medical Aid in Dying Laws in the U.S.

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  JAMA has a review of the current state of medical aid in dying in the 12 U.S. jurisdictions (if Delaware proceeds) that now allow it. Medi...
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

California Bans Legacy Admissions at Private Universities.

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  The NYT has the story: California Bans Legacy Admissions at Private Universities. The change will affect Stanford University, the Universi...
Monday, September 9, 2024

Anticipating kidney exchange in Germany in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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   Here's an op-ed in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, celebrating the anticipated beginning of kidney exchange in Germany. Der Volks...
Monday, September 2, 2024

Oregon ends decriminalization of drugs, continues to experiment

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  Here's the story in the Washington Post Hard drugs illegal again in Oregon as first-in-nation experiment ends "Sunday marks the e...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024

End Kidney Deaths Act intoduced in Congress

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  Here's the press release from the Congressional sponsors: Malliotakis Introduces Bipartisan End Kidney Deaths Act , August 12, 2024 ...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

Kidney exchange in Germany: draft of a proposed law

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  Yesterday the German Federal Cabinet published the draft of a law that would allow kidney exchange in Germany. Below is the text of the pr...
Friday, June 14, 2024

Repugnance doesn't establish standing in court: Supreme Court reverses Kacsmaryk on medical abortion

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  Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that (for the time being at least) the medical abortion pill  mifepristone should remain le...
Friday, May 10, 2024

Kidney exchange in Germany?

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  A draft law to make kidney exchange legal in Germany, and to allow nondirected donation, is making some progress: here (with the help of G...
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Menthol cigarettes get a reprieve

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 The WSJ has the story: Biden Administration Shelves Plan to Ban Menthol Cigarettes . White House had been weighing health benefit of ban ag...
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Proposed age-adjusted smoking ban in the U.K.

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  The BBC has the story, about a proposal to ban smoking for everyone currently under the age of 18. (What could go wrong?) What is the UK ...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

The Ethical Limits of Markets by Kim Krawiec

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 Here's a new summary by one of the leading scholars of "taboo trades." Kimberly D. Krawiec, " The Ethical Limits of Mark...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024

New York is about to end its legal ban on adultery

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A 1907 New York state law criminalizing adultery (as a misdemeanor) looks likely to be repealed. New York adulterers could get tossed out of...