Indigenous Customs and Federal Legislation

Proposed federal legislation jeopardizes patient privacy.

In the last year there has been a move to enact federal legislation concerning private health-care information. This move has been fueled by a growing trend toward the computerization and electronic transmission of health-care information. These advances in technology call for appropriate new protections of patients' privacy. Unfortunately, the proposed legislation has not received adequate ...

Pending Legislation for Federal Aid to Science.

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Federal legislation and the advancement of neonatal drug studies.

T he directive from the US Congress, through laws and regulations mandating that manufacturers of pharmaceuticals demonstrate proof that new drugs are both safe and efficacious in target groups, has been in place for 50 years. However, children and, in particular, neonates remain disproportionately underrepresented in the majority of drug clinical trials. To date, federal legislation has been s...

Litigating Federal Health Care Legislation and the Interstices of Procedure,

[Health policy and legislation concerning traditional indigenous medicine in Mexico].

Various Mexican federal and state government agencies dealing with indigenous affairs are trying to establish control over traditional medicine and by recognizing it achieve cost decreases for health care directed towards Indian groups, bolstering it as a first-care level. The result is that the community absorbs the costs of medical care, leading to a reduction in the number of patients seekin...