Thursday, January 15, 2015 12:30 PM

Hauser Hall 102,1575 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

The recent outbreak of Ebola has called attention to the substantial difficulties associated with developing and testing new products for time-sensitive epidemics. What are the legal, ethical, and economic barriers to getting essential treatments and preventative measures from the lab into the hands of patients - and how can they be overcome?

Please join the Petrie-Flom Center for a discussion of these issues by Peter Barton Hutt, Partner at Covington & Burling, LLP, and Lecturer on Law at HLS. Rachel Sachs, Petrie-Flom Center Academic Fellow, will respond.

• "The Right to Try Meets the Reality of Drug Approval," Joan H. Krause 
• "FDA Updates System for Explaining Risks of Meds in Pregnancy," Emily Largent
• "Do hospitals have a role in population health?," Lauren A. Taylor
• "Clinical Trials Regulation in India, " Mark Barnes and Dr. Barbara Bierer
• "Access to Drinking-Water as a Fundamental Human Right," by Mart�n Hevia
• "The ACA's Cerberus," by Kelsey Berry
• "How Should the FDA Regulate Fecal Transplantation Safely and Effectively?," by Rachel Sachs
• "The Constitutionality of Damage Caps in Pennsylvania," by Alex Stein
• "Debate over Resident Duty Hours," by Vadim Shteyler
• "Access to Drinking-Water as a Fundamental Human Right," by Mart�n Hevia
• Recent posts by Art Caplan on egg freezing, hyperbaric oxygen therapy and force-feeding.

Check out our website for a more complete listing of events scheduled for 2015. Remember, you can find materials from many of our events, including slide presentations and full event videos, online in our events archive.

Save the Date for More Upcoming Petrie-Flom Events!

• Pain and Suffering Symposium, February 5, 2015
• Speaker on Law & Applied Neuroscience, February 11, 2015
• Speaker on Law & Applied Neuroscience, March 4, 2015
• Book Launch: Identified versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Approach, March 11, 2015
• Families Matter: Ethically, Legally, and Clinically, March 18 - 21, 2015
• Speaker on Law & Applied Neuroscience, March 25, 2015
• Speaker on Law & Applied Neuroscience, April 8, 2015
• FDA's Impact on Pharmaceutical Innovation: A lecture by Neil Flanzraich, April 14, 2015
• 2015 Annual Conference: Law, Religion, and American Health Care, May 8 - 9, 2015

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