New Health Policy Titles from BNA

Health Care Policy Report and Medical Research Law and Policy Report, two journal titles from BNA, are now available electronically from Himmelfarb Library. These titles will be especially useful to users tracking issues in health policy and law.

Health Care Policy Report can help users "closely monitor and analyze federal, state, and private-sector health care policy proposals, debates, and responses." This publication covers access, cost containment, drug coverage for seniors, E-health, ERISA and employee benefits policy, hospital and physician reimbursement, managed care, medical devices, medical errors, medical savings accounts, Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP, organ transplants, pharmaceuticals, physician bargaining, plan regulation, plan liability, privacy, state efforts, and telemedicine.

Medical Research Law and Policy Report can help users stay abreast of the "most significant regulatory and legal developments in medical research." This publication covers accreditation, bioterrorism, clinical trial incidents, cloning, conflicts of interest, data monitoring committees, genetic research, human subject protections, informed consent, institutional review board activities, intellectual property rights, patients' rights, privacy and security, scientific misconduct, and stem cell research.

Health Care Policy Report and Medical Research Law and Policy Report are available to GWUMC users on Himmelfarb Library's e-journals page. The titles can be accessed from on-campus and off-campus locations.