Welcome
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 and Research Associate Karin Kellogg served as contributing authors for "Comfort, Hope and Wishes: Making Difficult Healthcare Decisions", a resource document on healthcare decision-making published by the Provincial Health Ethics Network (PHEN). PHEN is currently carrying out public consultation to ensure future versions of this document are useful, accurate, and informative.
New Publication: Timothy Caulfield, "Human Gene Patents: Proof of Problems?" (2010) 84 Chicago-Kent Law Review 113.
Executive Director Tracey Bailey and Research Associate Mark Ammann have published an op-ed on the subject of judicial decision making in withdrawal of treatment cases.
Executive Director Tracey Bailey has given interviews to CBC Radio 1, Global TV and CBC Television regarding Isahiah May, an infant patient whose parents are challenging a decision by hospital physicians to discontinue life support following an assessment of irreprable brain damage.
New Publication: Timothy Caulfield, Nola Ries et al., "Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: good, bad or benign" (2009) Clinical Genetics, doi: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2009.01291.x.
New Publication: Timothy Caulfield, Christopher Scott, Insoo Hyun, Robin Lovell-Badge, Kazuto Kato & Amy Zarzeczny, "Stem cell research policy and iPS cells" (2010) 7 Nature Methods 28-33.
Alberta Reforms
Alberta has significantly reformed its Adult Guardianship & Trusteeship legislation and its Mental Health Legislation. The Minister's Advisory Committee on Health has also been created to advise the government on health reform.
Events
The Persistence of Race in Biotech Patenting and Drug Development (25 March 2010)
Physicians in Lawsuits: How the Bench and Bar view doctors in medical malpractice cases (9 February 2010)
"Reforming U.S. Healthcare - Why So Difficult Why So Nutty?" (4 February 2010)
New Adult Guardianship & Trusteeship Act Workshop (18 January 2010 and 29 January 2010)
What's New in Health Law
Litigation brought against Alberta's College and Association of Chiropractors and others will not proceed by way of class action, the province's Court of Queen's Bench has ruled.
The British medical journal the Lancet has retracted a twelve-year-old study that linked autism and childhood vaccination with the measles-mumps-rubella MMR vaccine.
The B.C. Court of Appeal has dismissed an attempt by the federal government to shut down Vancouver's supervised injection site on the city's Downtown Eastside.
Having received input from nearly 2,000 Albertans, the Minister's Advisory Committee on Health has released its report.
