The Trump administration’s legal theories about gender-affirming care, if accepted, could shift the equilibrium of medical decision making in the United States in important ways.

Our healthcare system reimburses the same surgery up to 34% less when the patient is a woman. We're ending structural sex discrimination in surgical reimbursement — because equity means safer surgery.

Right to Try can allow certain patients with life-threatening conditions access to investigational treatments, but after almost 8 years, the pathway appears to be rarely used in oncology.

This Viewpoint explores the entry of AI into clinical care, the role of the US Food and Drug Administration, and the associated legal, public health, and medical implications.

This Viewpoint explores how financial settlements related to the US opioid epidemic are being spent and how the funds could be used on potentially lifesaving interventions.

Access to comprehensive health coverage can determine whether people live or die.

This Viewpoint discusses new guidance on responsible use of artificial intelligence.

Short-term renewals of policies such as the ACA subsidies set up repeated battles in Congress.

It is often said that a business without marketing is dead. But when a medical product is marketed irresponsibly, it is patients who may pay with their lives. In this context, Wieberdink et al1 examin...

Leaders of the FDA have published a list of new priorities for the agency. They want to deliver rapidly-approved cures and "unleash AI."

Eli Lilly sued four telehealth firms, but it is adopting a new legal strategy in its fight against compounded GLP-1s.

Cambridge Core - Medico-Legal, Bioethics and Health Law - Health Law as Private Law

In 2024, the American Law Institute revised the legal standard for assessing medical negligence. Author Christopher T. Robertson, JD, PhD, of Boston University School of Law joins JAMA Executive Editor Gregory Curfman, MD, to discuss these changes in the first-ever restatement of the law.

More emphasis on use of evidence-based care and nationally recognized practice guidelines

This Special Communication discusses the changes introduced in the first-ever restatement of the law of medical malpractice by the American Law Institute.

Perceived racial and ethnic disparities in attorney discipline threaten public confidence in the legal profession’s fairness and equity. This Article explores whether lawyers of color are subject to a...

The Supreme Court recently agreed to hear a case about adolescent e-cigarette use and the FDA’s role in addressing it. A ruling against the FDA could have implications for its authority and for pub...

I’ve written a couple of short pieces about the move to invoke Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to block Donald Trump from the ballot. The…