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Thank you for visiting the website of the Health Law Institute! We are located at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law.
At the Institute
Executive Director Tracey Bailey appeared as a panelist on Alberta Primetime to discuss potentially reopening the abortion debate.
Executive Director Tracey Bailey appeared as a panelist on Alberta Primetime to discuss whether electronic prescriptions (part of “ePrescribe”, an Alberta Health and Wellness project to start this summer) put your private information at risk.
On January 16, the Health Law Institute co-presented an evening seminar titled FASD and the Law.
Mark Ammann appeared on Alberta Primetime to discuss the legal aspects of parental corporal discipline and the associated criminal sanctions.
Executive Director Tracey Bailey appeared as a panelist on Alberta Primetime to discuss the legal and ethical issues around the disclosure of an Alberta Teenager's HIV status, picture and name publicly prior to apprehending her for aggravated sexual assault.
Executive Director Tracey Bailey appeared on an Alberta Primetime panel to discuss the recent challenge to s. 241 (2) of Canada's Criminal Code (which prohibits assisting suicide).
Events
New Health Law Institute Seminars to be Announced
What's New in Health Law
Oxycodone, the highly addictive painkiller, may well soon be less available in multiple provinces across Canada.
An Alberta teen who slept with two male youths without dislosing her HIV status to them will not be spending any time in jail.
The last year has experienced significant shortages in certain drugs, the reality of a profit-driven business where the bottom-line figures predominately in determining which drugs are manufactured, and in what volume.
Edmonton will have a new private health care clinic this May.
