…will decide whether preemption of state tort litigation is implied by the law, even though it is not explicitly stated. Previous administrations and the FDA considered tort litigation to be…

…Oct. 2: The statute is known by two names: The Alien Tort Statute (ATS) and the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA). My original post called it the Alien Tort Act….

by cactus Forbes and the “Self-Made” Label I’m kinda busy these days, but this topic is small pet peeve of mine: what the heck is up with Forbes and the…

…have to submit articles.” Off-label use of drugs is big business. According to The Wall Street Journal, “[FDA] is stepping into a high-stakes business issue, because off-label uses of prescription…

…would be smaller if the AHCA were law. A bill which combined health care reform reform and tax reform could include even larger tax cuts than simple repeal of the…

…of the number of people who have been killed by welfare reform. It is very important that the deadly effects of welfare reform were reported by supporters of welfare reform…

Tort Reform and Tradeoffs [warning: long post] As I was reading Dwight Meredith’s latest interesting discussion of tort reform, lead poisoning and lead-based paint came to mind. I was trying…

…unreasonable cases, but if it is reasonable that the off-label use of the drug might have caused the damage, then the encouraged off-label use would lead to an assumption of…

…oppose efforts to reform the police out of racial resentment. Furthermore, racial biases could easily lead someone to be overly fearful of police reforms or to fear that reform efforts…

…reviewed the effects of tort reform on so called “defensive medicine” practices, looking at both the effect of reform measures on physician/provider ordering patterns, as well as the possible effects…