Ms. Gina Kolata is back with another important but depressing New York Times article on the failure of our national policy for addressing...

Asbestos campaigners in the UK have embarked on a 1,200 mile bicycle trip to publicize the need for more medical research into...

Monday’s post noted that the war on cancer is going slowly, at best. Little did I know that by the end of the day, President Obama would...

The Friday April 24, 2009 New York Times included a thoroughly depressing article on cancer by long-time science writer Gina Kolata. The...

The New York Times ran a Saturday article detailing growing evidence of government misconduct in the criminal prosecution of WR Grace...

Lawyers are starting to react publicly to the Illinois Supreme Court’s ruling on the Lipke issue. One article is pasted below, and quotes...

The march of science continues, and so does its impact on tort litigation. For example, the American Bar Association’s TIPS section is...

“Sponsored research” continues to be controversial. The topic will be squarely addressed next spring in a Friday March 20, 2009 session...

A continuing topic of this blog is exploration of the ways that advances in science will change tort litigation tactics and may change...

What to do with sponsored research – take it at face value, disregard it completely, or use it subject to considering whether to reduce...

How should governments and courts decide/define when persons have a condition that should warrant payment of compensation through tort...

A prior post here noted that Canadian scientists recently criticized the Canadian government for continuing to support global sales of...

The Canadian Medical Association has come out with an editorial, described here, that calls on Canada to join with other countries to...

For some time now, I’ve been writing about potential changes in product liability law due to rapid changes in communication and science....

Science moves much faster than does “the law,” and the changes in science over time will have a profound impact on the framing and...