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Many Covid-19 intensive care guidelines fail to protect patients’ legal rights, according to an LML research team. An explanation of their view has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Medical Ethics.   ‘Who Gets the Ventilator? Important Legal Rights in the Covid-19 Pandemic’, was co-authored by Dr Kathy Liddell (LML Director), Dr Jeffr…

Professor Mateo Aboy (LML Senior Research Scholar) has co-authored a paper titled ‘Regulatory responses to medical machine learning’ with several of LML’s CeBIL Collaborators.Medical machine learning is a sub-type of medical artificial intelligence, which uses machine learning algorithms to identify medical patterns and guide clinical decisions. It…

A blog post by an LML COVID-19 research team has been published in the British Medical Journal’s Journal of Medical Ethics.‘Deciding who gets the ventilator: Will some lives be lost unlawfully?’ discusses the interplay between patients’ legal rights and medical resource allocation in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, it focuses on the …

Dr Stevie Martin (LML Member) has written a blog post for EJIL:Talk (the blog of the European Journal of International Law) about derogation from the ECHR in light of COVID-19.A Domestic Court’s Attempt to Derogate from the ECHR on behalf of the United Kingdom: the implications of Covid-19 on judicial decision-making in the United Kingdom discusses…

Dr Kathy Liddell (LML Director) has been quoted in an article by the NY Times about the UK’s approach towards medical rationing in relation to Coronavirus.The UK has an established history of offering public guidance on medical treatment at the of  life, including some high level guidance for pandemics. Guidance from the Department of Health and So…

In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, Parliament needs quick access to researchers who can provide expert insights relating to both Coronavirus and its wider consequences.To speed up the process of Parliament accessing relevant research expertise, a COVID-19 Outbreak Expert Database has been created. LML has joined this database, and so may be call…

In light of the present public health situation, the Cambridge Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences has created a publicly accessibly Google Drive document:COVID-19: Literature on the Legal and Ethical Issues Facing Front-line Healthcare ProfessionalsThis compilation is intended to support transparent and public discussion, particularly durin…

                                                                      A chapter co-authored by Dr Kathy Liddell (LML Director) and Dr Simon Ravenscroft has been published in Thomas C. Berg, Roman Cholij, and Simon Ravenscroft (eds.) Patents on Life: Religious, Moral, and Social Justice Aspects of Biotechnology and Intellectual Property (Cambridge U…

LML’s evidence-based IP research group is pleased to announce that it has published another article in Nature Biotechnology.The paper titled -- ‘One year after Vanda, are diagnostics patents transforming into methods of treatment to overcome Mayo-based rejections?’ -- examines the effect of the decision in Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc., v. West-Ward P…

Unfortunately, due to present public health concerns, the 2020 Baron de Lancey Lecture has been cancelled.In 2018, the International Association for Athletic Federations enacted regulations that prevent female athletes with naturally high levels of testosterone from competing in some athletics events. The validity of these regulations was challenge…

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest public health emergencies of our time.AMR is an evolutionary process whereby microbes —like bacteria, fungi, and viruses— acquire resistance to the antimicrobial substances we have long depended upon to stop their spread, including antibiotics, antifungals, and antivirals. The likelihood of drug…

On 9-10 December 2019, Dr Kathy Liddell (LML Director) participated in the Global Forum on Intellectual Property, Access to Medicines and Innovation. Oranised by the South Centre and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, the Global Forum brought together policy makers and leading academic figures to examine how intellectual property …

Dr Daisy Cheung (LML collaborator based at Hong Kong's Centre for Medical Ethics and Law) and Dr Elizabeth Fistein (LML Affiliate, Cambridge Clinical School) have co-authored an article with others titled, Articulating future directions of law reform for compulsory mental health admission and treatment in Hong Kong . The article explores four possi…

Following the hugely successful CeBIL Symposium 2019: Legal Innovation to Support the Development of Antimicrobial Drugs, LML was delighted to host CeBIL colleagues Prof. Timo Minssen and Dr Jakob Wested for an extended visit. Building on the momentum of the Symposium, we consolidated findings and feedback from the event, and planned how the ideas …

LML would like to congratulate our close collaborators at the PHG Foundation on the publication of two reports.'Regulating algorithms in healthcare: The GDPR and IVDR in practice', details the findings from a 2018 multidisciplinary workshop (of the same name). Attended by Dr Kathy Liddell (LML Director), Dr Jeff Skopek (LML Deputy Director), Prof. …