Administrative burdens impede disabled people's efforts to exercise their right to live in the community as afforded to them under the American with Disabilities Act. The opaqueness and associated burdens with waiver programs are a way to conceal these burdens, thereby demonstrating how burdens "nea …

The US health secretary added that he would’ve made sweeping changes ‘on day one’ but he had to follow the law

The rushed launch of a Medicare pilot to use AI for prior authorization led to delayed care in some instances, new documents reveal.

Federal projects are rolling out A.I. agents that offer therapy and prescribe medicine, raising concerns about safety and the influence of venture capital investors.

Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington is seeking outstanding entry-level and lateral tenured/tenure-track applicants to meet needs in a variety of curricular areas caused by planned r...

Kelly K. Gillespie (Saint Louis University School of Law) and Jennifer D. Oliva (Indiana University Maurer School of Law) have posted Institutional Design, Drug Policy, and the Limits of Abstraction, 139 Harvard L. Rev. Forum 237 (2026) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article is a response to Professors Matthew Lawrence and David Pozen’s Drug Scheduling as Institutional Design, in a spirit of engagement rather than opposition.

Jennifer D. Oliva (Indiana University Maurer School of Law) has posted Government Goes Goop, published in 75 Emory L.J. Online 32 (2026), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article argues that the appointment of prominent wellness and antivaccine figures to senior federal health positions marks the culmination of a long-running evolution in American health fraud—from nineteenth-century traveling medicine shows to the institutional capture of government health agencies.

Eighty-two thousand fewer Hoosiers are receiving benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program since President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act took effect last October.The l...

Discover what life was like in America in 1776, from population to foods to life expectancy.

A study found ER doctors are more hesitant to care for pregnant patients who are bleeding.

DHS should reprioritize serious criminals and stop wasting resources on immigrants who are seeking lawful status or simply want to contribute to the United States.

Opioid settlement cash was meant to abate the addiction crisis. But a new investigation reveals millions in Louisiana was spent on law enforcement gear and police technology instead of lifesaving trea...

Historic opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement.

An AI pilot programme is attempting to cut down on ‘wasteful' medical procedures, and patients are paying the price

Large datasets can be useful research tools, but current government efforts to gather medical records depend on policy and technology that falls short of protecting people’s privacy.

Large datasets can be useful research tools, but current government efforts to gather medical records depend on policy and technology that falls short of protecting people’s privacy.

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

The authors of a new report have called prior authorization---which allows insurers to overrule physicians to deny coverage---a "corporate care veto" and found it drains tens of billions of dollars ea...

Professor Reiss discusses the challenges and dangers of splitting the MMR vaccine into separate doses for measles, mumps, and rubella.

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In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.

Bella Mancini Pori & Edward Stein, Multi-Generation Queer Families: Foregrounding the LGBTQIA+ Children of LGBTQIA+ People, 26 Geo. J. Gender & L. 57 (2024).Doron DorfmanNot long ago, a friend in his ...

The United States is experiencing a significant rise in the prevalence of asthma and other debilitating respiratory and cardiovascular ailments that disproporti

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington is seeking outstanding entry-level and lateral tenured/tenure-track applicants to meet needs in a variety of curricular areas caused by planned r...

Massive Overreach will Undermine Access to Health Care for People Covered by Medicaid Last week, on May 20, 2026, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed regulation on...