Current/Past Issues

Current Issue:

Health Law Review Volume 20, Number 1 (2011)

Contents

“What Have I Got to Lose?”: An Analysis of Stem Cell Therapy Patients’ Blogs
Christen Rachul

Biotechnology and Science in Video Games: A Destructive Portrayal?
Blake Murdoch, Christen Rachul, and Timothy Caulfield

Food Labelling Regulation to Promote Healthy Eating
Barbara von Tigerstrom

When is a Custodian Not a Custodian?
Jonathan P. Rossall Q.C. and Rina A. Urish

Past Issues:

Health Law Review Volume 19, Number 3 (2011)

Contents

Introduction
Michael McDonald, Guest Editor

Research Ethics Broadly Writ: Beyond REB Review
James A. Anderson, Brenda Sawatzky-Girling, Michael McDonald, Daryl Pullman, Raphael Saginur, Heather A. Sampson, and Donald J. Willison

A New Perspective on Research Ethics
Pierre Deschamps

Research Ethics in 2020: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
Michael McDonald, Daryl Pullman, James Anderson, Nina Preto, and Heather Sampson

A Guide to the Perplexed: How to Navigate Conflicting Research Ethics Policies
Jonathan Kimmelman, Michael McDonald, and Denise Avard

From Stakeholders to Shareholders: Engaging Consumers in Health Research
Susan Cox, Kelley Ross, Anne Townsend, Denise Avard, and Roberta Woodgate

Health Law Review Volume 19, Number 2 (2011)

Contents

Silence May Not Be Golden: A Review of Health Professionals’ Statutory Obligations to Report Unfit Drivers
Robert Solomon, Erika Chamberlain and Suzie Chiodo

Alberta’s Patient Charter: Is it a course worth charting?
Mark Ammann and Tracey Bailey

Criminalizing HIV Transmission and Exposure in Canada: A Public Health Evaluation
Sarah L. Drummond

Pay-for-Performance Reimbursement in Health Care: Chasing Cost Control and Increased Quality through “New and Improved” Payment Incentives
Rick Mayes and Jessica Walradt

Health Law Review Number 19, Volume 1 (2010)

Contents

Civil Commitment and the “Unsuitable” Voluntary Patient
Gerald B. Robertson

Everything You Want to Know About Changes to the Mental Health Act in Alberta
Mary Marshall

Fact or Fashion? Alberta Adopts the Community Treatment Order
Peter Carver

The Mental Health Act and the Adult Guardianship and Trusteeship Act: Working Together to Protect the Rights of Albertans
Brenda Lee Doyle and Sandra Harrison

Health Law Review Volume 18, Number 3 (2010)

Contents

Research Participants’ Rights to Access Information about themselves held by Public Research Institutions
Nola M. Ries

The Crown’s Right of Recovery Act
Jacob J. Shelley

Media Representations of Allergy and Asthma Issues, Policy and Research: Views from the AllerGen Research Community
Robyn Hyde-Lay

Staking the Public Trust on Newborn Dried Blood Spot Retention: How the Beleno and Bearder decisions may impact Canadian Newborn Metabolic Screening Processes
Graham Barr

Much Ado about Something: Insights into the Science Communication Process
Christen Rachul

Health Law Review Volume 18, Number 2 (2010)

Contents

Field Notes
Amy Zarzeczny

Alberta’s new Organ and Tissue Donation Law: the Human Tissue and Organ Donation Act
Erin Nelson

Would Presuming Consent to Organ Donation Gain Us Anything But Trouble?
Mark Ammann

Ethical Issues in Resolving the Organ Shortage: The Views of Recent Immigrants and Healthcare Professionals
Owen Beattie, Wendy Austin, Julija Kelecevic, & Erika Goble

Developing a National Newborn Screening Strategy for Canada
Kumanan Wilson, Shelley J. Kennedy, Beth K. Potter, Michael T. Geraghty, & Pranesh Chakraborty

Systemic Accountability through Tort Claims Against Health Regions
Lorian Hardcastle

Specific Health Care Decisions Under Alberta's Adult Guardianship and Trusteeship Act
Karin Kellogg

Health Law Review Volume 18, Number 1 (2009)

Contents

Public Health Protection and Drinking Water Quality on First Nation Reserves: Considering the New Federal Regulatory Proposal
Constance MacIntosh

Assessing a Public Health Justification for Reducing Whale Consumption in Northern Canada
Cameron Jefferies

Using Food and Beverage Price Interventions to Address Obesity
JoAnne Sauder

Exploiting the Fiduciary Relationship: The Physician as Information Intermediary in Assisted Human Reproduction
Vanessa Gruben

New Frontiers for Electronic Health Records and Research Databases – Alberta’s Bill 52: Submission of the Health Law Institute on Bill 52
Tracey M. Bailey

Special Edition: Health Law Review Volume 17, Numbers 2 & 3 (2009)

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Contents

Introduction
Michael McDonald

Historical Perspectives

From Code to Policy Statement: Creating Canadian Policy for Ethical Research Involving Humans
Michael McDonald

Research Governance Lessons From the National Placebo Initiative
Heather Sampson, Daryl Pullman & Charles Weijer

Research on Research Ethics

Research Challenges and Evolving Practices in Research on Research Ethics
Susan Cox, Anne Townsend, Nina Preto, Roberta L. Woodgate, Pam Kolopack

Informing Governance Through Evidence-Based Research on REBs: Challenges and Opportunities
Michael Owen, Claudia Emerson, Pam Kolopack, Nina Preto, Heather Sampson, Anne Townsend, Donald Willison, Roberta L. Woodgate

New Approaches to Ethical Review

Challenges to Ethics Review in Health Research
Bartha Maria Knoppers

Minimal Risk in Large Scale Biobank and Cohort Research
Timothy Caulfield and Charles Weijer

Ethics Review of Multi-Centre Trials: Where Do We Stand?
Raphael Saginur, Pierre Deschamps, Michael Owen, Heather Sampson

Systemic Reform

Research Ethics Boards and Challenges for Public Participation
Denise Avard, Michele Stanton-Jean, Roberta L. Woodgate, Daryl Pullman, Raphael Saginur

Examining and Understanding the need for Canadian Research Ethics Board (REB) Member Standardized Education: Governance Views from the Field
Heather Sampson, Susan Cox, Raphael Saginur, Michael Owen

Health Law Review Volume 17, Number 1 (2008)

Contents

Decision-making Processes Regarding Cancer Technologies: A Review
Tania Stafinski, George P. Browman and Devidas Menon

Genomics and Intellectual Property: Considering Alternatives to Traditional Patenting
Emily Marden, Cheryl Power, David Hartell, Ed Levy and Ben Warren

Novel Platforms for Genetic Analysis: An Assessmen of Rapid, Portable Diagnostic Devices
Michael D. Mehta

Reflections on the Value of Systems Models for Regulation of Medical Research and Product Development
Ron A. Bouchard

BiDil, Clinical Trials and the Popular Press: An Exploration of Newspaper Coverage
Simrat Harrry and Timothy Caulfield

Health law Review Volume 16, Number 4 (2008) - Student Online Edition

Contents:

Cover

Information

Defining Deliberative Outputs in a Public Engagement about Biobanks
Kieran O'Doherty and Michael M. Burgess

Biobanks: Informing the Public through Expert and Stakeholder Presentations
Samatha MacLean and Michael M. Burgess

A Lego Model to Help Inform Participants at the British Columbia Biobank Deliberation
Elizabeth S. Wilcox

Evaluating Recruitment Strategies for Biobank Talk
Holly Longstaff and Michael M. Burgess

Mapping the Boundaries of Bioinformatics
Lily Farris and Janet Atkinson-Grosjean

Regulations Pertaining to the Emerging Area of Nutrigenetic Testing
Sarah Scott

Food Insecurity, Aquaculture, and the Nature of Technology
Bill Hannah

Commercialization of Plant-Derived Vaccines in Canada: A Distant Dream
Victor Das, Peter W.B. Phillips and George G. Khachatourians

An Assessment of the Science and Technology Policy Research Capacity in Canada
Anna Stoklosa

FDA Approval of BiDil: First Step to Pharmacogenomics or Detour into Race-based Medicine
Simrat Harry

Regulating Research Involving Humans in Nigeria: Some Recent Improvements
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe

Health Law Review Volume 16, Number 3 (2008)

Contents

The Science of Nutrigenomics
Ahmed El-Sohemy

Regulating Nutrigenetic Tests: An International Comparative Analysis
Nola M. Ries

Canadian Legal Oversight of Pharmacogenomics and Nutrigenomics
Karine Morin

The Regulation of Nutrigenetic Testing: A Role for Civil Society Organisations?
Stuart Hogarth

Mass Media and Commercialization Pressures
Tania Bubela and Benjamin Taylor

Nutrigenomics, Popular Representations and the Reification of Race
Timothy Caulfield

Intellectual Property and Nutrigenomics
David Castle

An Empirical Analysis of the Legal Frameworks Governing Genetic Services Labs in Canadian Provinces
Élodie Petit, Anne Marie Tassé and Béatrice Godard

Cost recovery and the Future of the Medical Device Regulation Program in Canada
Sherri Alpert

Book Review: Mental Health and Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives (James E. Moran and David
Wright, eds.)
A review by Archibald Kaiser

Health Law Review Volume 16, Number 2 (2008)

Contents

Introduction and Dedication

Consent to Embryo Donation for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Erin Nelson

Governance and Stem Cell Research: Towards the Clinic
Michael McDonald and Bryn Williams-Jones

The Regulation of Conflicts of Interest in the Canadian Stem Cell Research Environment
Ubaka Ogbogu

The Rationale For A Registry Of Clinical Trials Involving Human Stem Cell Therapies
Rosario M. Isasi and Thu Minh Nguyen

Stem Cell Research, Publics' and Stakeholder Views
Robin Downey and Rose Geransar

Oversight of Stem Cell Research in Canada: Protecting the Rights, Health, and Safety of Embryo
Donors
Cynthia B. Cohen, Michael E. Enzle, Bernard Dickens, Bruce Brandhorst, Teren Clark, Catherine Clute,
Diana Dunstan, Donald Evans, Raymond D. Lambert, Sylvie Langlois, Arthur Leader, and Cheryl
M.G. Robertson

Health Law Review Volume 16, Number 1 (2007)

Contents

Introduction
Nola M. Ries

Public Health Information, Federalism, and Politics
Elaine Gibson

Legal Issues in Disease Outbreaks: Judicial Review of Public Health Powers
Nola M. Ries

Preventing Pandemonium: Pandemic Preparedness Planning and Communicable Disease Outbreak
Management in a University Setting
Lorie Grundy, Olive Yonge, Ray Richards, Tracey M. Bailey, Thomas J. Marrie, Les Brinkworth, and Ben
Herman

Canada's Obligations to Global Public Health Security under the Revised International Health Regulations
Christopher W. McDougall and Kumanan Wilson

Ethics in an Epidemic: Ethical considerations in preparedness planning for pandemic influenza
Ross Upshur, Karen Faith, Jennifer L. Gibson, Alison K. Thompson, C. Shawn Tracey, Kumanan Wilson, and Peter A. Singer

Final Project Report: Results of a CIHR-Funded Project Examining Legal Issues in Infectious Disease Response and Control
Nola M. Ries

Health Law Review Volume 15, Number 3 (2007)

Contents

The Political and Moral Economies of Science: A Case Study of Genomics in Canada and the
United Kingdom
Nicole Dusyk

An Evaluation of GE³LS Public Engagement Activities
Holly Longstaff

MORGEN and Data Release Policies: An Overview
Cheryl Power

Occupational Health and Safety Regulation and the National Institute of Nanotechnology
Timothy C. Bailey

"Traditional Use" and Regulatory Change in the Arena of Natural Health Products
Vincent Kurata

The Effect of Genetic Determinism and Exceptionalism on Law and Policy
Michael Sharp

Assessing the Science of Genetically Modified Crops: The New Frontier of Public Health Policy
Jacob J. Shelley

Kant's Antipode: Nietzche's Transvaluation of Human Dignity and its "Implications" for Biotechnology
Policy
C.J. Murdoch

Possible Consequences of Remedy in Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser
Mark Facundo

Media Portrayal of Conflicts of Interest in Biomedical Research
Megan Koper, Tania Bubela, Timothy Caulfield and Heather Boon

Learning to Swim with Salmon: Pilot Evaluation of Journalism as a Method to Create Information for
Public Engagement
David M. Secko

Health Law Review Volume 15, Number 2 (2007)

Contents

Healing, not Squealing: Recent Amendments to Alberta's Health Information Act
Tracey M. Bailey and Steven Penney

Problematic Principles: The CMA on Public/Private Health Care
Jocelyn Downie, Nuala Kenny and Chantelle Rajotte

The Origins of and Economic Momentum Behind "Pay for Performance" Reimbursement
Rick Mayes

Public Meets Private: Challenges for Informed Consent and Umbilical Cord Blood Banking in
Canada
Lorraine Sheremeta

Chaoulli, Critical Theory and Charter Rights
Vincent Kurata

Health Law Review Volume 15, Number 1 (2006)

Contents

Trends in Evidence Based Medicine for Herbal Remedies and Media Coverage
Tania Bubela, Timothy Caulfield and Heather Boon

Media Portrayal of Conflicts of Interest in Herbal Remedy Clinical Trials
Megan Koper, Tania Bubela, Timothy Caulfield, and Heather Boon

Public Trust and Regulatory Governance as represented through the Media
K. Fernando, T. Bubela and T. Caulfield

Functional Foods and Intellectual Property Rights: The Importance of an Integrated Approach
Karen L. Durell

A Note on the Economic Rationale for Regulating Health Claims on Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals: The Case of Canada
Deepananda Herath, Spencer Henson and John Cranfield

Deference in the Public Health Context
Jacob Shelley

Comparing Methods of Ethical Consultation for Biotechnology Related Issues
Holly Longstaff, Michael Burgess and Patrick Lewis

A Web-based Instrument to Model Social Norms
Rana Ahmad, Zosia Bornik, Peter Danielson, Hadi Dowlatabadi, Edwin Levy, Holly Longstaff and Jennifer Wilkin

Canadian Consumers' Preferences for Food Safety and Agricultural Environmental Safety
Yu Li

Public Preferences relating to Plant Molecular Farming
Shiyi Tao

Stories from Guatemala and North America: Why Indigenous Beliefs Matter in the Debate on Genetically
Engineered Food
Shiri Pasternak

Breaking the Trance? Enabling Dissenting Views on Immortalism
Greg McMullen

Stem Cells, Politics and the Progress Paradigm
Suzanne DeBow, Tania Bubela and Timothy Caulfield

Nanotechnology: A Lot of Hype over Almost Nothing?
Charma Stang and Lorraine Sheremeta

Health Law Review Volume 14, Number 3 (2006)

Contents

Is Research in Canada Limited to "Surplus" Embryos?
Josephine Johnston

Life Insurers' Access to Genetic Information: A Way Out of Stalemate?
Yann Joly

With Great Knowledge Comes Great Responsibilities: An Examination of Genetic Discrimination
in Canada
Daman Thable

Pan-Canadian Study on Variations in Research Ethics Boards' Reviews of Research Projects Involving
Placebo Use
Johane Patenaude, Julien Cabanac and Johane de Champlain

A Review of Pressing Ethical Issues Relevant to Stem Cell Translational Research
Ubaka Ogbogu

Case Comment: Clinger c. Centre Hospitalier de Chicoutimi
Lorian Hardcastle

The Future of Cord Blood Banking in Canada
Lorraine Sheremeta, Margo Plant and Bartha Marie Knoppers

Health Law Review Volume 14, Number 2 (2005)

Contents

Federalism and Public Health Law in Canada: Opportunities and Unanswered Questions
Kumanan Wilson

The Electronic Health Record in Canada: The First Steps
Anthony A. Morris

Regulating Consent to Human Embryo Research: A Critique of Health Canada's Proposal
Natalie Ram

Direct-to-Consumer Advertising for Prescription Drugs in Canada: Beyond Good or Evil
Catherine Régis

Personal Inviolability and Public Health Care: Chaoulli v. Quebec
Gregory R. Hagen

Ghost of a Chance: Gregg v. Scott in the House of Lords
Vaughan Black

Health Law Review Volume 14, Number 1 (2005)

Contents

The Constitutionality of Mandatory Reporting of Gunshot Wounds Legislation
Wayne Renke

Police Experience with the Health Information Act: The Edmonton Police Service's Submissions to the Select Special Health Information Act Review Committee
Bonnie Bokenfohr

A Practitioner's Response to the Final Report of the Select Special Health Information Act Review Committee
Mat Rose

Electronic Health Records as a Threat to Privacy
Glenn Griener

Legal Protections of Electronic Health Records: Issues of Consent and Security
Nola M. Ries and Geoff Moysa

Substitute Decision-Makers in Privacy Legislation that Affects Health Information in Alberta
Noela J. Inions

A Voluntary Privacy Standard for Health Services and Policy Research: Legal, Ethical and Social Policy Issues in the Canadian Context
Karen M. Weisbaum, Pamela M. Slaughter, Paulette K. Collins

The Realities of Implementing Health Information Legislation: The Manitoba Experience
Renata Neufeld

Health Law Review Volume 13, Number 2 & 3 (2005)

Special Edition Canadian Governance for Ethical Research Involving Humans
Guest Editor: Michael McDonald, Maurice Young Chair of Applied Ethics, University of
British Columbia
Cost: $25.00 + $1.75 GST. Cheque only payable to the "Health Law Institute"

Contents

Introduction