Browsing HLS Student Papers by Title
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Should Tanning Salons Be Banned?
(1995)Tanning salons are a one billion dollar business each year in the United States. Over one million people a day visit the 21,000 tanning establishments in this country in search of the perfect tan, paying four to twelve ... -
Should TrimSpa X32 Remain on the Market? An analysis of TrimSpa X32’s compliance with FDA and FTC guidelines
(2005)TrimSpa X32 has launched onto the dietary supplement and weight loss markets with a deluge of promotion, from a celebrity endorser to a million dollar contest, from sponsorship of award shows to a website filled with ... -
The Sick Man and his Medicine: Public Health Reform in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt
(2003)This paper examines the transformation of public health institutions in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in the nineteenth century. I argue that the region’s political, financial, and military vulnerability ... -
The Silicone Gel-Filled Breast Implant Controversy: Testing the Bounds of Regulatory Intervention
(2004)Silicone gel-filled breast implants were first introduced in the United States in the 1960s and immediately gained popularity among women seeking to augment or reconstruct their breasts. However, although the Food and Drug ... -
Spontaneous Reporting Systems: Achieving Less Spontaneity and More Reporting
(2001)The purpose of this article is to highlight and analyze possible improvements to spontaneous reporting systems, in particular, and drug safety, in general. Part I of this article will provide a background on adverse drug ... -
A Spurious Solution to a Genuine Problem: An In-Depth Look at The Import Drugs Act of 1848
(2002)The Import Drugs Act has been relatively ignored by the academic community, and is most often relegated to a passing reference in a footnote. Yet the Act represents an important step in our nation’s ... -
State Agricultural Disparagement Statutes: Suing Chicken Little
(2001)This paper will analyze how several different states have approached agricultural disparagement statutes in efforts to protect their unique economies and agricultural industries. Specifically, this paper will examine how ... -
State Medical Marijuana Initiatives: A Justification and Analysis
(1998)This paper briefly chronicles the efforts of marijuana activists at the federal level. Then it analyzes the text, implementation and subsequent developments of the California and Arizona initiatives passed by the voters ... -
Stopping Traffic: An In-depth Analysis of the Controversial New Film and What It Says about the United States' War on Drugs
(2001)The purpose of this paper is, rather, to examine the issues the film raises and to highlight the truths in the story lines that are used to create those issues. In doing so, this paper seeks to enrich the stories already ... -
A Story about a Taiwanese Culinary Practice and Law
(2001)A story about dog meat eating and regulations in Taiwan. -
The Story of RU-486 in the United States
(2001)In this paper, I will navigate you through the fascinating odyssey of RU-486 from its initial development in France to its official entry into the U.S. pharmaceutical market to the post-approval strife in which it is now ... -
Strategies of Influence: How Corporate Power Directs and Constrains the FDA
(2001)This paper is about the Food and Drug Administration, and the tactics that regulated – and sometimes unregulated – industries use to influence that agency’s ... -
A Structure That Does Not Function: An Examination of the History and Current Regulatory Status of Dietary Supplements and Their Label Claims
(2001)After years of ad hoc regulation of dietary supplements, attempting to strictly curtail access to and claims attributed to these products, the DSHEA was a positive step. Both Congress and the FDA were hopeful that it would ... -
SUBTHERAPEUTIC USE OF ANTIBIOTICS IN ANIMAL FEED: IN LIGHT OF AN UNRESOLVED CLASH OF EXPERT PARADIGMS SHOULD WE PUNT TO THE CONSUMER IN DECADE FOUR?
(1998)In the early 1970s, the seemingly banal and nondescript matter of the subtherapeutic use of antibiotics in animal feed ignited a contentious debate in policy circles. For three decades now, this issue has periodically ... -
Sweetening the Bitter Pill: Rx to OTC Switches Via a Third Class of Drugs
(1995)The United States faces a health care crisis in the years ahead. Spiraling costs are quickly outpacing the rate of inflation. Many people do not feel the immediate pressure as the true cost of America's health care is borne ... -
Take a Label Claim, and Pay Me in the Morning: A Challenge to FDA's Argument that its Final Rule (Jan. 2000) on Structure/Function Claims for Dietary Supplements Does Not Constitute a Compensable Regulatory Taking Under the Fifth Amendment
(2000)On January 6, 2000, the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") published its final rule prescribing the kinds of statements which can be made about the effect of a dietary supplement on the structure or function of the body ... -
Taming "Rogue" Pharmacy Websites: The Response to Illegal Prescription Drug Sales on the Internet
(2000)What has emerged from recent media coverage, White House statements, and congressional hearings is a fairly clear picture of the threat to public health posed by "rogue" online pharmacies and the obstacles facing state and ... -
A Taste of Jewish Law & The Laws of Blessings on Food
(2003)This paper is an in-depth treatment of the Jewish laws pertaining to blessings recited both before and after eating food. The rationale for the laws is discussed, and all the major topics relating to these blessings are ... -
TEMPERANCE, TAXATION, AND TURMOIL: FEDERAL REGULATION OF INTOXICATING BEVERAGES 1789-1918
(2002)This paper presents a history of the federal role in regulating the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages in the United States from the opening of the First Congress of 1789 to the enactment of the ... -
Testing Cosmetics on Animals: An Idea Who's Time Has Gone
(2005)Despite tremendous progress in reducing animal testing in the assessment the safety of cosmetic products, it persists and there is no definitive end in sight. The reasons for this are not entirely clear because the major ...