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Panel Held on Opioid Crisis in Cherokee Nation
On February 22, 2018, the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, the Yale Health Law and Policy Society, and the Yale Native American Law Student Association hosted a panel entitled “Litigating the Opioid Crisis: Tribal Sovereignty and American Pharmaceuticals.”
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Azar Sworn in as Health Secretary
Alex Azar ’91 was sworn in as Secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Department on January 29, 2018.
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Yale Law Faculty Involved in Report to Revoke Surrogacy Ban
A New York State Task Force on Life and the Law that Professor Abbe R. Gluck ’00 serves on has recommended that the State do away with a longtime ban on women serving as paid childbirth surrogates.
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Solomon Center to Host Conference on Policy, Politics and Law of Cancer
The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School will host a major interdisciplinary conference addressing topics at the cutting edge of cancer policy.