Toward an Integrated Drug Abuse Prevention Policy: The Impact of Legal Restrictions and Controls

Where do future disabilities fit within the law?  Disability civil rights laws expressly extend rights to individuals with present or past...

The Supreme Court’s evisceration of the federal constitutional right to abortion has raised the specter of criminal and civil liability for abortion...

In the last five years, 27 states have passed bans prohibiting transgender minors from receiving gender-affirming care. These treatments include...

The Cass Review on gender-affirming care, which has been used to justify bans in U.S. states, transgresses medical law, policy, and practice, which...

During times of crisis, governments often consider policies that may promote safety, but that would require overstepping constitutionally protected...

This chapter critiques the twin World Health Organization (WHO) principles of self-sufficiency and nonremuneration in organs and blood, urging a more...

Suddenly, the term “civil war” is everywhere, from state and federal immigration battles to abortion access to environmental regulation to election...

Almost half of the states in the country have made it harder to get an abortion since the Supreme Court in 2022 overturned the federal right to get an...

Privacy is a key issue in AI regulation, especially in a sensitive area such as healthcare. The United States (US) has taken a sectoral approach to...

Detailed descriptions of violent postictal episodes are rare. We provide evidence from an index case and from a systematic review of violent postictal...

Last week, Republicans in Congress introduced the IVF Protection Act. The claimed goal is to ensure that states do not ban the “pro-woman and pro...

On June 27, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a case brought by the federal government regarding whether Idaho’s abortion ban conflicts with a...

In Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the plaintiffs argued that the FDA had not adequately tested mifepristone for...

Our perceptions of what we owe each other turn somewhat on whether we consider “another” to be “an other”—a stranger and not a friend. In this essay...

Having the freedom to choose your own health care provider is something many Americans take for granted. But the Supreme Court is weighing whether...

In February 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court issued an unprecedented decision, finding that frozen embryos should be treated as children under Alabama...

The recently enacted Respect for Marriage Act is important bipartisan legislation that will protect same-sex marriage if the Supreme Court overrules...

Who has the legal right to challenge decisions by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration? And should the moral umbrage of a group of anti-abortion...