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Resources Related to Health Law and Policy

Course Guides

• Advanced Health Law Seminar (Spring '06)
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research Guide
  Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), as defined by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), "is a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine." This research guide suggests research strategies and useful print and electronic resources on this emerging field to help you start your research.

Databases

• BioTech Watch (BNA)
  Daily newsletter providing updates on the latest legislation, regulations, cases, and other legal developments involving biotechnology.  Database contains all issues published since April 23, 2001.
• CCH Health and Human Resources Total Connect
  Health & Human Resources Total Connect provides access to articles on topics in health and human resources. Topics covered by this resource include workers’ safety, payroll, insurance, benefits, training, management and more. Primarily, this source provides access to the full text of federal and state laws that affect health and human resources, as well as information from a variety of government sources produced by agencies like OSHA, the FDA and more. Some full text is available. Title coverage varies. News content is updated daily. Now part of CCH IntelliConnect. Note: You must register using your Georgetown Law email address, and create your own password.
• CCH IntelliConnect
  Online version of numerous CCH loose-leaf services, such as the Bankruptcy Law Reporter, Federal Securities Law Reporter, Blue Sky Law Reporter, Trade Regulation Reporter, Federal Banking Law Reporter, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Reporter, Standard Federal Tax Reporter, EEOC Manual, Labor Arbitration Awards, Copyright Law Reporter, and others. Note: Users must create their own user name and password after initial login.
• ETHXWeb (EthicsWeb)
  Indexes journal articles, book chapters, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, books, audiovisuals, and news articles relating to bioethics and professional ethics. From the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Library & Information Services, Georgetown University.
• Health Affairs
  Health Affairs is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed journal that explores health policy issues of current concern.
• Health Business Fulltext Elite
  Health Business Fulltext Elite provides full text for 420 periodicals detailing all aspects of health care administration and other non-clinical aspects of health care and institution management. Includes Delivery of Health Care, Health Services, Commerce, Economics, Organization and Administration, and Health Care Administration.
• Health Care Daily Report (BNA)
  Daily newsletter providing information and analysis of federal, state, and private-sector health care policy and law topics.
• Health Care Fraud Report (BNA)
  BNA's Health Care Fraud Report monitors a broad range of health care fraud and abuse issues in the private insurance industry, managed care organizations, and federal and state programs.
• Health Care Policy Report (BNA)
  Electronic version of weekly publication with information and analysis of federal, state, and private-sector health care policy topics. Covers information on health insurers, insurance regulators, employers, tax specialists, consumer groups, health care providers, HMOs, fraud investigators, and other parties; Analysis & Perspective articles, interviews, special reports, and survey and study findings of influential research groups on health care matters. Also available in print in Williams Library, 5th floor, Call Number KF3821 .M26.
• Health Law and Business Library (BNA)
  The Health Law & Business Portfolios provide authoritative, in depth legal analysis of important issues affecting the health care industry. The Portfolios examine the business implications of legal issues and the legal considerations inherent in business decisions. Each portfolio provides a Detailed Analysis a thorough examination of a specific legal/business topic, as well as Working Papers (appendix material, including sample practice documents, surveys of state laws on specific topics, and the full text of relevant statutory and regulatory materials) and a bibliography of selective print and electronic resources. The Health Law & Business Portfolios are organized into seven broad subject matter groups for quick browsing through related subjects: Antitrust, Contracting Issues, Fraud and Abuse; Operational Issues; Structural and Legal Issues; Tax-Exempt Health Care Entities; and Transactional Issues.
• Health Law Reporter (BNA)
  This database includes articles and information published on a weekly basis covering timely legal, legislative, regulatory, and health care news and trends. It compiles case law, statutory law, regulations and news items by topic.
• Health Plan and Provider Report (BNA)
  Health Plan & Provider Report (BNA): This comprehensive, versatile resource delivers reliable, objective news coverage of the volatile managed care industry, including state and federal laws and policies affecting health plans and providers.
• Life Sciences Law and Industry Report (BNA)
  Life Sciences Law & Industry Report provides biweekly updates on current regulatory, legislative, and legal issues relating to the life sciences industry.
• Medical Devices Law and Industry Report (BNA)
  The Medical devices law & industry report provides in-depth, interdisciplinary biweekly news coverage of major developments in the rapidly changing medical devices industry.
• Medical Research Law and Policy Report (BNA)
  Medical Research Law & Policy Report tracks the most significant regulatory and legal developments in medical research that can affect the way your practice, clients, and organization stay in compliance. Published bi-weekly.
• Medicare Report (BNA)
  Published weekly, BNA's Medicare Report provides information about Medicare issues in today's volatile atmosphere with thorough, factual reporting and analysis of legislative, regulatory, legal, and health care industry developments.
• National Journal Group
  NationalJournal.com incorporates content and resources from all branches of National Journal Group Inc.: CongressDaily, The Hotline, American Health Line, Technology Daily. Also features Hotline Mobile, polling results, campaign and issue ads, the online Almanac of American politics, "buzz" columns, a calendar of Washington events, and top stories from the weekly National Journal.
• Nursing & Allied Health Collection (EBSCO)
  Designed for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers, this database provides full text for nearly 400 journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines.
• Occupational Safety and Health Daily (BNA)
  Occupational Safety & Health Daily (BNA) provides articles on legislative, regulatory, and judicial developments affecting job safety and health, rely on the resource that OSHA officials themselves read.
• Occupational Safety and Health Reporter (BNA)
  Occupational Safety & Health Reporter provides full coverage of the latest developments in federal and state occupational safety and health programs, standards, legislation, regulations, enforcement, and court and agency decisions. Published weekly. Coverage: 1996 -.
• Pharmaceutical Law and Industry Report (BNA)
  Pharmaceutical Law & Industry Report provides regulatory and litigation developments affecting the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.
• State Health Care Regulatory Developments (BNA)
  BNA's State Health Care Regulatory Developments provides up-to-date information on health care regulatory developments in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
• Taylor & Francis Journals Online
  Taylor & Francis imprints include Routledge, Carfax, Frank Cass, and others. Many Taylor & Francis titles are accessible individually via the "All University" E-Journal Finder on TDNet. Access to T & F journals is via the Informaworld platform. (Subjects include Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics as well as behavioral science and biomedical journals from Informa Healthcare.) Individual titles are listed in GULLiver.

Foreign and Int'l Guides

• Global Health Law Research Guide
  This guide is focused on international and cross-border legal regimes for addressing health law issues.
• Pandemic Flu - Public Health Research Guide
  This research guide focuses on the law related to the efforts in preventing, detecting and containing human influenza on the international, regional and national level (focusing on the United States).

Treatise Finders

• Health Law and Policy Treatise Finder

U.S. Topical Guides

• Bioethics Research Guide
  This research guide is designed to highlight important resources, not limited to legal resources, for research on bioethics topics. The guide focuses on United States resources.
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research Guide
  Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), as defined by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), "is a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine." This research guide suggests research strategies and useful print and electronic resources on this emerging field to help you start your research.
• Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law Research Guide
  This research guide is to assist with research in Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law, in particular Federal law arising since the 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Additionally, it is designed to provide an introduction to FDA Administrative Research. The Guide acquaints Georgetown students and faculty with resources available them through the library.
• Health Law Research Guide
  This research guide is designed to provide an introduction to U.S. health law research in the Georgetown Law Library. It includes select legal and policy resources on various aspects of health law.
• Pandemic Flu - Public Health Research Guide
  This research guide focuses on the law related to the efforts in preventing, detecting and containing human influenza on the international, regional and national level (focusing on the United States).

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