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The U.S. Senate Takes On Medical Malpractice Reform
Monday, April 24, 2006
What is the appropriate role of the federal government in addressing the issue of medical malpractice and what are the potential conflicts between the federal government and the states?
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Combating the Diseases of Poverty: Aid versus Innovation
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
What should the U.S. government and the World Health Organization be doing to combat poverty-related diseases in the developing world?
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The Cutter Incident
A Legal Tale of Unintended Consequences for Vaccine Development
Friday, April 14, 2006
Paul A. Offit presents his book The Cutter Incident : How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis.
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Medical Malpractice Liability and Physician Supply
HEALTH POLICY DISCUSSION
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
Do doctors really flee certain states, avoid high-risk specialties such as neurosurgery and obstetrics, or even forgo practicing medicine as a result of ever-growing liability concerns?
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Panic Attack: The New Precautionary Culture, the Politics of Fear, and the Risks to Innovation
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
We are witnessing a reevaluation of human activity that concentrates on worst-case scenarios to suggest that excessive caution is the only option.
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Getting the Most Innovative Drugs to Market: What Can the FDA Do?
With Remarks by Dr. Scott Gottlieb, Deputy Commissioner for Medical and Scientific Affairs, Food and Drug Administration
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Yet, in recent years there has been a decline in the number of innovative new drugs reaching the market, despite extraordinary advances in the basic and applied science upon which these new
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Health Savings Accounts and Tax Subsidies
How Effective Can They Be?
Friday, November 18, 2005
Will Health Savings Accounts lower the cost of health insurance and help to reduce the number of people without coverage?
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The $253 Million Vioxx Verdict
What Does It Mean?
Wednesday, September 7, 2005
On August 19, 2005, a jury in Angleton, Texas, found Vioxx producer Merck liable for the death of fifty-nine-year-old Robert Ernst.
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Do Health Accounts Promote Better Spending?
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
This event explores the incentives and options of flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts.
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The New Neuromorality
W. H. Brady Program in Culture and Freedom Conference
Wednesday, June 1, 2005
Panelists adddress the current claims of new neurotechnologies and discuss the legal and moral agency issues that arise out of this new neuroscience.
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