Braidwood Management Inc. threatens to upend recently enacted programs to curb new HIV cases
On June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced the presence of a rare form of pneumonia in five previously healthy gay men in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report — it wouldn’t be until 1986 that the Reagan administration mentioned “AIDS” in public. Around this time, about 16,500 people […]
From Flint to Gaza: Contradictory Narratives of Water, Health, and Crisis
In 2014, one American town prioritized cost-saving measures over the health of its people. The city of Flint, MI imprudently decided to trade its current drinking water system, which piped treated water from the nearby city of Detroit, to a new, familiar source: the Flint River. Inadequate treatment of this […]
Some Food Packaging May Soon Contain a Standardized “Healthy” Logo. Why, and What Is “Healthy?”
For years, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has considered revising how it defines the term “healthy.” This April, the FDA is due to publish its updated definition of the term, which would change which foods manufacturers could legally claim are healthy. The definition has not been updated since 1994. […]
The Impact of Overturning Chevron on the Healthcare Industry
In a landmark 1984 case before the Supreme Court, Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. set forth a doctrine of judicial deference for administrative actions. The doctrine determined that a court should defer to an agency’s decision regarding an ambiguous statute whenever the agency’s action was reasonable, […]
The Viability of In Vitro Gametogenesis for Social and Situational Infertility
In vitro gametogenesis (“IVG”), a process through which scientists may induce any human cell to become either an egg or sperm cell, might eliminate the need for injections and painful egg retrieval procedures associated with in vitro fertilization (“IVF”). Though IVG has proven successful only in mice, hypothetical applications to […]