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Category Archives: Legal
Gun Violence Researchers Are Making Up for 20 Years of Lost Time
August 4, 2021 Depending on who you ask, the end of a 2-decade dry spell in federal funding for gun violence research is a windfall or a pittance. Either way, experts in the field say that renewed funding is especially … Continue reading
Posted in Health policy, JAMA, Legal, Medicine
Tagged Dickey Amendment, firearms, gun violence, injury, JAMA, NIH, public health, Second Amendment
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US Supreme Court unlikely to approve assisted suicide
January 18, 1997 Should physicians be allowed to give terminally ill patients lethal doses of medication? This question, more frequently on the minds of people in the US thanks to Jack Kevorkian, came before the Supreme Court on Jan 8. … Continue reading
Posted in Legal, Medicine, The Lancet
Tagged ethics, euthanasia, medical ethics, physician-assisted suicide, Supreme Court
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Supreme Court Dubious on Right to Sue Over Low Medicaid Fees
Washington, DC — Several US Supreme Court justices expressed skepticism that physicians have the right to sue if they believe states have set Medicaid rates too low. The Justices were responding to oral arguments held today in Armstrong v Exceptional … Continue reading
Posted in Health policy, Legal, Medscape
Tagged Medicaid, physician fees, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
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