News & Commentary
Originally published by Vice on December 21, 2017. Written by Sony Salzman. As a liver disease doctor in Chicago, Illinois, Nancy Reau treats patients with hepatitis C, a viral infection […]
Written by Tammuz Huberman, student in the Food Law and Policy Clinic, Fall 2017. Months after Hurricane Irma, thousands of people are lining up in Miami to sign up for Disaster […]
Written by Imani Tisdale, student in the Fall 2017 Food Law and Policy Clinic. Oklahoman Bryan Parker is one of the 42 million Americans served by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, […]
Originally published by STAT on December 4, 2017. Written by Ed Silverman. Amid ongoing criticism that some states continue to curb access to hepatitis C drugs, Colorado officials have lifted restrictions that determined […]
Written by Emily J. Wilson, MPH, MS, CHES, Health Professions Education Doctoral (HPED) Program, Simmons College; CHLPI Consultant On October 30th, the Massachusetts Food is Medicine State Plan Planning Council kicked […]
Originally published by Reuters on December 7, 2017. Written by Robert Greenwald, faculty director of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School and Ryan Clary, executive director of […]
Originally written and published by BranchFood. Maybe mom was right: we should be finishing more of our plates. The statistics on how much food Americans waste are staggering: Collectively, we […]
Originally published by the Denver Post on December 1, 2017. Written by Jennifer Brown. Colorado soon will begin treating needy hepatitis C patients with the latest antiviral drugs instead of […]
Originally published on healio.com on December 1, 2017. Written by Janel Miller. The Senate will debate and may vote on the Republican tax reform proposal today, with several critical health care components […]
Written by Tammuz Huberman, student in the Food Law and Policy Clinic, Fall 2017 Let’s say you’re a health-conscious consumer at the grocery store deciding on a beverage to purchase. Maybe […]
The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF), in charge of administrating the state’s Medicaid program, has announced today that it will remove its disease stage restriction on Hepatitis C […]
Food Law & Policy, Commentary
In Defense Of SNAP
December 21, 2017
Written by Jane Jeong, student in the Food Law and Policy Clinic, Fall 2017. SNAP is already the nation’s “most effective” economic stimulus program. The political battle over the 2018 […]