Controversy has surrounded health care reform at least since the 2008 presidential elections, and it has not died down since President Obama signed the health care bill into law back in March. The Tea Party, perhaps the loudest opponent to this law, has consistently argued that Congress exceeded its constitutional power in passing the [...]
Continue Reading →Reminiscent of music industry tycoons, producers of “The Hurt Locker” sue BitTorrent users for illegal downloading of the film.
Gary McKinnon, computer hacker that breached Department of Defense and NASA websites, fights extradition to the United States.
Woman’s war against Adobe demonstrates the [...]
Continue Reading →To the drug companies that are awarding kickbacks for prescribing or otherwise recommending their drugs, I have two words: stop it!
I respect the time, effort, and money that pharmaceutical companies devote to drug research and development, and advertising the drugs that are ultimately developed is an inevitable part of the research and [...]
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Ukrainian law prohibiting unmarried couples from adopting children bars Elton John and longtime partner David Furnish from adopting 14-month-old, HIV-stricken child.
PCs and iPhones with text-to-speech applications for speech-impaired denied coverage by Medicare and private health insurers due to other non-medical uses.
Pfizer offered a major “mea culpa” last week when it agreed to pay $2.3 billion in fines for the “largest combined federal and state health care fraud settlement in the history of the Department of Justice.” The pharmaceutical company has ended up in this less than esteemed position as a result of [...]
Continue Reading →Look for Over the Counter but Under the Radar: Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests and FDA Regulation of Medical Devices in the Spring 2009 issue (Vol. 11, No. 3) of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law. The Abstract for the Note follows:
Direct-to-consumer genetic tests are laboratory-developed tests that are marketed and sold directly to [...]
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