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Health insurance companies use AI to decide which health care treatment to cover. State laws and federal agencies are now moving toward regulating these algorithms.
Recent political attention might imply gender-affirming care is risky, controversial, perhaps even new. But Australian law views it as a legitimate medical treatment.
Only 33% of participants in a Queensland study knew voluntary assisted dying was legal.
The future of the blockbuster drugs could hinge on a trial in Pennsylvania.
The ACT is allowing nurse practitioners to assess people’s eligibility for voluntary assisted dying. But the latest law is unique in other ways.
Alabama’s case began when three couples sued an IVF clinic where their frozen embryos had accidentally been dropped.
Proposed reforms aim to increase public information about previously sanctioned health professionals and to better protect people who complain.
Here’s who is eligible to request voluntary assisted dying in NSW and how its laws compare with those in other Australian jurisdictions.
We may need to reconsider how we sanction serious or ‘repeat offenders’. That may include permanently barring them from practice.
State and territory health ministers have decided to restrict the title ‘surgeon’ to specially trained doctors. It’s a significant change for consumers and doctors.
Aged care facilities and hospices can block access to voluntary assisted dying, despite it being legal in your state.
Voluntary assisted dying is now legal, or will soon will be, in all six states. But we need enough doctors to put their hands up for training.
Multiple amendments could make the law unwieldy, incoherent and even unworkable.
The proposed NSW legislation is similar to other states, including replicating a key flaw.
While the HIPAA Privacy Rule prevents health care providers from sharing your health information without your permission, it doesn’t prevent other people from asking you about it.
A health law expert explains what the regulation does and doesn’t protect.
If COVID-19 causes a ventilator shortage in hospitals, triage protocols will dictate who gets life-saving treatment. Health-care workers need protection from liability for following those protocols.
The connections between city planning and health are many and varied, but getting health objectives integrated into all aspects of planning in New South Wales has been a long struggle.
Many of the online testimonials you might read for dentists and other health professional can not only mislead, they can be illegal.
Top contributors
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Professor of End-of-Life Law and Regulation, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Law, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer in Law, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
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Professor of Law, Public Health Sciences, and Public Policy, University of Virginia
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Professor of Law, Indiana University
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Professor Emeritus, Faculties of Law and Medicine, Dalhousie University
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Adjunct Professor, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Reproduction, University of Waterloo
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Senior Research Fellow in Urbanism, University of Sydney
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Research Assistant, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
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Research Assistant at Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Medicine, Deakin University
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Professor of Health Law, Public Health Law and Medical Ethics, University of South Florida
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PhD candidate, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology
