The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) intends to take American health care in a new direction by focusing on preventive medicine and wellness-based treatment. But, in doing so, it does not adequately take into account the potential contribution of complementary and alternative...

Public health practice - the prevention of disease and injury and the protection of the population - relies on access to information. Legal practice treats information very differently: it is a weapon: has power and value, and it is rarely yielded without getting something in return. Civil...

This Article offers an alternative theoretical framework for health ethics, policy and law, integrating both substantive criteria and procedural mechanisms - a joint scientific and deliberative approach - to guide health-system reform and allocation of scarce health resources. It appeals to a...

The health care system in the United States is undergoing profound changes. Unprecedented demographic, technological, political, and economic shifts have led to new organizational structures, reimbursement systems, and professional relationships in health care delivery. The most commonly used...

The Chemical Safety Improvement Act of 2013 (CSIA) was introduced at the end of May, 2013 as a bipartisan effort to remedy the well-documented deficiencies in regulating chemicals used in U.S. commerce. The current law in force, the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (“TSCA”), barely...

Securing access to effective antimicrobials is one of the greatest challenges today. Until now, efforts to address this issue have been isolated and uncoordinated, with little focus on sustainable and international solutions. Global collective action is necessary to improve access to life-saving...

With an expanding market for what is now known as "complimentary and alternative" medicine (CAM), states are increasingly facing the issue of who can and who should be allowed to practice medicine. Of necessity, this question also concerns whom patients may see to treat their ailments. This...

The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) signature accomplishment was the creation of a statutory right to health care for the uninsured. The ambition and the degree of societal and political debate leading up to the Act’s passage suggests it is a “superstatute,” a rare breed of statute that...

Despite the imposition of increasingly substantial fines and recently successful efforts to impose individual liability on corporate executives under the Park doctrine, punishing pharmaceutical companies and their executives for unlawful promotional activities has not been as successful in...

This paper aims to demonstrate that any suggestion that there is a need for specific innovation laws is flawed. Innovation is central to good medical practice and is adequately supported by current law. Methods: The paper reviews the nature of medical innovation and outlines recent attempts in...