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Reimportation of Prescription Drugs - Legislative, Executive, Judicial and State and Local Responses
(2006)The expensive cost of prescription drugs has become a high-profile issue in the United States, challenging the government and policy-makers to create a solution that addresses all the factors involved in this issue. Creating ... -
REIMPORTATION OF U.S. PHARMACEUTICALS: POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVES
(2002)The high cost of prescription drugs in the United States is a problem that has engendered much political attention. One proposed solution to the prescription drug problem is to permit reimportation of U.S.-made drug products, ... -
Reimportation: A First Step or False Step Toward Transparency in the Prescription Drug Market?
(2005)Drug reimportation has become a politically-appealing way to lower drug prices, which Americans commonly perceive as too high. However, legalizing reimportation of U.S.-approved drugs raises major concerns about safety and ... -
Reimportation: The Solution to the High Cost of Prescription Drugs?
(2004)This paper is about a provision in the recently enacted Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 allowing the reimportation of prescription drugs from Canada under specified conditions. This ... -
Religion and Medicine: Why does religion play a role in medical regulation?
(2002)A comparison of the treatment of FDA regulation of religious devices with other intersections between general regulatory schemes and religious freedom. Comparisons included: religious fraud laws, regulation of faith healers ... -
Replication and Purification in Identity-Based Social Movements
(2013)Identity-based social movements — such as the Civil Rights Movement, the Women’s Movement, and, more recently, the LGBT Rights Movement — have proved a remarkably powerful catalyst of legal and social change. However, ... -
Reproduction in the Genetic Age: A Proposed Scheme for the Regulation of Assisted Reproductive Technologies
(2002)In the last several years, there have been a number of advances in the area of assisted (or advanced) reproductive technology (ART) that are so fantastic that they strain the credulity of even those well-versed in medicine ... -
Research Guide: The Federal REgulation of Dietary Supplements
(2000)This is a guide to researching the Federal regulation of dietary supplements. -
Research on the Terminally Ill: A Balancing Act Between Facilitating Access to Innovative Therapies and Protecting Vulnerable Subjects in Search of One Last Hope for Survival
(2003)This paper presents the application of the current federal regulatory system governing clinical research in the United States to research involving terminally ill subjects, with a special emphasis on those patients battling ... -
Researching and Regulating Prescription of Psychotropic Drugs in Adolescents
(2003)The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) occupies a prominent place in the pantheon of public health-oriented agencies of the United States government, seated within the Department of Health and Human Services and maintaining ... -
Responding to First Responders: A Proposal for a Smallpox Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
(2003)In December 2002, President Bush announced a plan to provide smallpox vaccinations to first responders--individuals who would be on the front lines in the event of a biological attack. To date, the plan has been unsuccessful ... -
Restrictions on Distribution of Use of Prescription Drugs: Current Practices and Future Prospects
(2003)FDA must continually balance its dual missions of protecting the public from unsafe and ineffective drugs and expeditiously allowing access to new and beneficial medications. While most risks associated with approved drugs ... -
Retooling Food Standards of Identity to Address Diet-Related Chronic Disease
(2003)Chronic disease rates have increased dramatically in the United States over the past several decades, and scientists believe that many such diseases, including heart disease and Type II diabetes, are partly attributable ... -
A Retrospective Review of FDA v. Brown Williamson Tobacco Corporation and the Issue of Congressional Intent
(2004)Contrary to a tradition of the FDA (Federal Food and Drug Administration) consistently maintaining that it could not assert jurisdiction over tobacco products, the agency issued a determination of jurisdiction over cigarettes ... -
The Right to Die Movement: From Quinlan to Schiavo
(2005)This paper traces the evolution of the right to die movement from its beginnings in 1976 all the way to the present. Part I looks at the beginnings of the movement, focusing on the Quinlan and Cruzan cases that together ... -
The Right to Stay Alive?
(1998)While standing by my belief that FDA "can't help" infringing on the right of terminally-ill individuals, I will argue that the matter should be removed from FDA's jurisdiction altogether, and evaluated in a constitutional ... -
The Rise of Obesity and Diabetes with the Adoption of A Western Diet: A Case Study of Native American Communities
(2014-03-18)Since the mid-1900s, rates of obesity and diabetes among Native American populations have been much higher than the rates of those disorders for Americans as a whole—and yet, before 1950 or so, diabetes was extremely rare ... -
A Rising Star? Halal Consumer Protection Laws
(2001)The objective of this paper is to explore the legal aspects of the nascent halal regime in the United States. In Part I, an introduction to halal dietary laws is given. In Part II, a summary history of the halal ...