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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
New Publication: Nola M. Ries, Robyn Hyde-Lay & Timothy Caulfield, "Willingness to Pay for Genetic Testing: A Study of Attitudes in a Canadian Population" (2009) Public Health Genomics (Published online: DOI:10.1159/000253120).
New op-ed publication: Timothy Caulfield, "Do Gene Patents Hurt Research: The Data Say They Don't" (2009) Science Progress (29 October 2009).
Congratulations to Sean Caulfield and HLI staff members Amy Zarzeczny and Robyn Hyde-Lay for their reception of a $147,500 grant from the Stem Cell Network.
Mark Ammann recently appeared as a panelist on Alberta primetime to discusss Bill C-384, An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (Right to Die with Dignity). This controversial private member's bill, if passed, would allow assisted suicide and euthanasia in some circumstances.
New Publication: T. Caulfield, V. Alfonso & J. Shelley, "Deterministic?: Newspaper Representations of Obesity and Genetics" (2009) 1 The Open Obesity Journal 38.
New Publication: Jennifer Farrell, Nola M. Ries, Natasha Kachan and Heather Boon, "Foods and natural health products: Gaps and ambiguities in the Canadian regulatory regime" (2009) 34 Food Policy 388.
News
Giving Voice: Advocacy & Mental Health will be held on Nov. 9, 2009. This event is a unique opportunity to hear from leaders in mental health & law on advocacy for those in the mental health system & upcoming legislative reform.
Events
Giving Voice: Advocacy & Mental Health (9 November 2009)
Real Impediments to Academic Biomedical Research (2 November 2009)
National Health Law Conference 2009
Performance-Based Regulation: Enterprise Responsibility for Reducing Death, Injury and Disease Caused by Consumer Products
What's New in Health Law
An agreement settling a decade long class action against manufacturers of the pro-kinetic drug Prepulsid has been approved.
New York's District Court has refused to dismiss a complaint alleging patents on the human genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are unconstitutional.
Legislation requiring Alberta health care facilities and emergency medical technicians to disclose to police information pertaining to any gunshot or stab wounds they treat was read a third time November 17.
Legislation increasing the options of decisionally incapable Albertans was proclaimed in force October 30.
