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Health Law & Policy Brief

The Health Law & Policy Brief is an online publication run by law students at American University Washington College of Law. Founded in 2007, the Health Law & Policy Brief publishes articles on a wide array of cutting-edge topics in health law. Such topics include health care compliance, fraud and abuse enforcement, health insurance payment and reimbursement issues, intellectual property issues, international human rights issues, FDA initiatives and policies, and a host of other matters. Beginning with a staff of just five, the Health Law & Policy Brief now boasts over twenty members and nearly 1,500 readers.


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Braidwood Management Inc. threatens to upend recently enacted programs to curb new HIV cases

Harrison FerachiMar 11, 2024
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 […]
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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 […]
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Some Food Packaging May Soon Contain a Standardized “Healthy” Logo. Why, and What Is “Healthy?”

Arthur YollesMar 9, 2024
 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. […]
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The Impact of Overturning Chevron on the Healthcare Industry

Sydney MyersMar 5, 2024
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, […]
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The Viability of In Vitro Gametogenesis for Social and Situational Infertility

Melissa BrownMar 5, 2024
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 […]