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NY Court Upholds Social Distancing Policy Requiring Unvaccinated To Stay Out...

By: Ross D. Silverman, JD, MPH (Twitter: @phlu) Fairbanks School of Public Health and McKinney School of Law, Indiana University, Indianapolis. This has been a big year for outbreaks of...

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Introducing New Blogger Ross D. Silverman

Ross D. Silverman  is joining Bill of Health as a regular contributor. Silverman is Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at...

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Ebola, Ethics, and the WHO Getting to Yes

Earlier this week, the World Health Organization, responding both to the international outcry over the rapidly rising number of Ebola cases and deaths across sub-Saharan Africa (and critiques of the...

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Why does Mississippi lead the nation in child immunization?

By Ross D. Silverman In the midst of the national discussion of measles and the state laws that foster or inhibit its spread, a curious fact has emerged, as noted recently by my JAMA co-author Tony...

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For Vaccines, Public Health Protection Trumps Religious Freedom (Again)

This week, the Supreme Court appropriately declined to hear an appeal of a 2nd Circuit decision upholding the right of the state to require vaccination as a condition of enrollment in public schools,...

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‘The Week in Health Law’ Podcast Talks Health Law and Social Media

By Nicolas Terry and Frank Pasquale This week and fresh from ASLME’s Health Law Professors’ Conference in Boston: a special TWIHL! Pharmalot’s Ed Silverman joins a cavalcade of past show guests (Rachel...

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Corralling the Herd: California Medical Board Acts Against Anti-Vax Doc

This summer, California’s strict new childhood immunization law, barring all exemptions except those needed for medical purposes, went into effect for public and private schools, preschools, and day...

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TWIHL: Innovation and Protection: The Future of Medical Device Regulation,...

This is the first of three episodes of “Innovation and Protection: The Future of Medical Device Regulation,” a podcast miniseries created to replace the 2020 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference in...

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Indiana’s Mask Mandate Debate Raises Public Health Enforcement Questions

By Ross Silverman On Wednesday, July 22, 2020, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb announced an Emergency Order to mandate mask wearing in public places beginning July 27, and indicated that violations of...

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From “A Spoonful of Sugar” to Operation Warp Speed: COVID-19 Vaccines and...

By Ross D. Silverman, Katharine J. Head, and Emily Beckman As professors studying public health policy, narrative medicine, and how providers and the public communicate about vaccines, we recognize the...

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Preventing Misuse of COVID-19 Vaccine Medical Exemptions

By Ross D. Silverman and Gabriel T. Bosslet As COVID-19 vaccination mandates become increasingly common, we can expect exemption requests (and misuse) to become increasingly widespread, too. Most...

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