Nicole Huberfeld

Jul 31, 2024 | healthaffairs.org | Gregory Curfman |Nicole Huberfeld

In 2009, with the passage of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (TCA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the first time gained limited authority to regulate tobacco. The TCA required the FDA to create graphic images of the health hazards of cigarette smoking, which were to be placed on the front and back of all cigarette packages and on advertising.

Jul 17, 2024 | statnews.com | Madeline Cohen |Sarah O'Connor |Nicole Huberfeld

Taking the oral examination is the final step in becoming a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist (OB-GYN). It is a challenge in the best of circumstances. But instead of worrying about how to respond to questions about the management of uterine cancers or peripartum hemorrhage, test candidates are worried about the legal risks of taking this exam, which must be done in Dallas, home of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG).

Jul 17, 2024 | flipboard.com | Madeline Cohen |Sarah O'Connor |Nicole Huberfeld

PoliticsNowA new kind of Republican Party is forming at the RNCPOLITICO - By Adam Wren, Olivia Beavers and Megan Messerly • NowThe GOP is dramatically transforming. Just listen carefully to the RNC. MILWAUKEE — A new kind of Republican Party is revealing itself at its national convention.

Jun 29, 2024 | thehill.com | Nicole Huberfeld

The right not to be turned away at a hospital’s emergency room remains protected, for now. The U.S. Supreme Court did not decide this week whether states can stop hospitals from caring for patients with medical emergencies that require performing an abortion. Instead, the court held it should not have taken the case, so lower federal courts will continue with it. In the meantime, doctors can continue to provide pregnant patients with emergency care without fear.

Apr 23, 2024 | statnews.com | Nicole Huberfeld

Anyone who has gone to a hospital’s emergency room expecting to receive medical care — not knowing where else to turn, uncertain whether a loved one is having a medical emergency and what can be done about it, or unsure if they can pay — has relied on a law they couldn’t name: the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). . It creates a point of rescue for anyone with a medical emergency.