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Papers by Valarie Blake

Research paper thumbnail of Scope of practice in team-based care: Virginia and nationwide

The virtual mentor : VM, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Oreos, Big Gulps, and nicotine: legal challenges to government lifestyle interventions

The virtual mentor : VM, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Affirmative action and medical school admissions

The virtual mentor : VM, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Medicine, the law, and conceptions of evidence

The virtual mentor : VM, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of The constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act: an update

The virtual mentor : VM, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Citizenship requirements for Medicaid coverage

The virtual mentor : VM, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Minors' refusal of life-saving therapies

The virtual mentor : VM, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of When is a patient-physician relationship established?

The virtual mentor : VM, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of American medical association policy-the individual mandate and individual responsibility

The virtual mentor : VM, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of When Doctors Pick up the Pen-Patient-Doctor Confidentiality Breaches in Publishing

The virtual mentor : VM, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Home or hospital-your medical board is watching

The virtual mentor : VM, 2011

Giving an alcoholic beverage to a 17-year-old, stashing counterfeit money, unlawfully possessing ... more Giving an alcoholic beverage to a 17-year-old, stashing counterfeit money, unlawfully possessing an automatic weapon, evading your taxes-if this sounds like a just another Friday night to you, then reconsider the profession of medicine [1][3][4]. A physician's public image is often as important as his or her professional one, particularly to medical licensing boards. All of the above are activities that have caused physicians' medical licenses to be challenged by state boards, whose jurisdiction can extend beyond the physician's practice of medicine to his or her private actions.

Research paper thumbnail of A Physician's Guide to Social Security Disability Determinations

The virtual mentor : VM, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act and the supreme court's interpretation

The virtual mentor : VM, 2012

Vaccine immunization has been at the center of a number of legal and ethical controversies, parti... more Vaccine immunization has been at the center of a number of legal and ethical controversies, particularly over the last several years, with mandated vaccines for military workers and concerns about links to autism dominating the media coverage. In February 2011 the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in on a particularly important issue related to the safety of vaccines and recovery for injuries caused by them.

Research paper thumbnail of The Terminally Ill, Access to Investigational Drugs, and FDA Rules

Research paper thumbnail of Fighting Prescription Drug Abuse with Federal and State Law

Research paper thumbnail of Reproductive Tissue Transplants Defy Legal and Ethical Categorization

Research paper thumbnail of Social Media: Boon or Boondoggle for Health Care Professionals?

Research paper thumbnail of The 2013 Review of the Childrenʼs Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act

Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2013

In September 2013, Congress again will review the Children&am... more In September 2013, Congress again will review the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009. Fourteen states cover the fetus only (and not the pregnant woman) under the "unborn child" provision of the current law. That the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act continues to make it possible for states to provide health insurance coverage to the fetus only has been critiqued for unnecessarily politicizing the law, dragging abortion and personhood debates into the matter of children's health insurance and creating unacceptable tensions between maternal and fetal health. Although the 2009 reauthorization attempted to remedy this issue by also providing coverage for the pregnant mother, it is imperative to review these changes and their effect before the 2013 reauthorization. To ensure optimum health care for both the fetus and the woman, we urge for removal of the "unborn child" pathway and promote coverage of both the fetus and the pregnant woman.

Research paper thumbnail of Uterus transplantation: ethical and regulatory challenges

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2013

Moving forward rapidly in the clinical research phase, uterus transplantation may be a future tre... more Moving forward rapidly in the clinical research phase, uterus transplantation may be a future treatment option for women with uterine factor infertility, which accounts for three per cent of all infertility in women. This new method of treatment would allow women, who currently rely on gestational surrogacy or adoption, to gestate and birth their own genetic offspring. Since uterus transplantation carries significant risk when compared with surrogacy and adoption as well as when compared with other organ transplants, it requires greater justification because its goals are quality of life, not life-saving, in their scope. It is important to address questions regarding the physical, psychosocial and ethical risks and benefits of uterus transplantation for all three parties involved--the patient, the donor and the potential child--as well as discuss the regulatory implications as research on uterus transplantations moves forward.

Research paper thumbnail of Harmonization of Ethics Policies in Pediatric Research

The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Scope of practice in team-based care: Virginia and nationwide

The virtual mentor : VM, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Oreos, Big Gulps, and nicotine: legal challenges to government lifestyle interventions

The virtual mentor : VM, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Affirmative action and medical school admissions

The virtual mentor : VM, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Medicine, the law, and conceptions of evidence

The virtual mentor : VM, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of The constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act: an update

The virtual mentor : VM, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Citizenship requirements for Medicaid coverage

The virtual mentor : VM, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Minors' refusal of life-saving therapies

The virtual mentor : VM, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of When is a patient-physician relationship established?

The virtual mentor : VM, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of American medical association policy-the individual mandate and individual responsibility

The virtual mentor : VM, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of When Doctors Pick up the Pen-Patient-Doctor Confidentiality Breaches in Publishing

The virtual mentor : VM, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Home or hospital-your medical board is watching

The virtual mentor : VM, 2011

Giving an alcoholic beverage to a 17-year-old, stashing counterfeit money, unlawfully possessing ... more Giving an alcoholic beverage to a 17-year-old, stashing counterfeit money, unlawfully possessing an automatic weapon, evading your taxes-if this sounds like a just another Friday night to you, then reconsider the profession of medicine [1][3][4]. A physician's public image is often as important as his or her professional one, particularly to medical licensing boards. All of the above are activities that have caused physicians' medical licenses to be challenged by state boards, whose jurisdiction can extend beyond the physician's practice of medicine to his or her private actions.

Research paper thumbnail of A Physician's Guide to Social Security Disability Determinations

The virtual mentor : VM, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act and the supreme court's interpretation

The virtual mentor : VM, 2012

Vaccine immunization has been at the center of a number of legal and ethical controversies, parti... more Vaccine immunization has been at the center of a number of legal and ethical controversies, particularly over the last several years, with mandated vaccines for military workers and concerns about links to autism dominating the media coverage. In February 2011 the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in on a particularly important issue related to the safety of vaccines and recovery for injuries caused by them.

Research paper thumbnail of The Terminally Ill, Access to Investigational Drugs, and FDA Rules

Research paper thumbnail of Fighting Prescription Drug Abuse with Federal and State Law

Research paper thumbnail of Reproductive Tissue Transplants Defy Legal and Ethical Categorization

Research paper thumbnail of Social Media: Boon or Boondoggle for Health Care Professionals?

Research paper thumbnail of The 2013 Review of the Childrenʼs Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act

Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2013

In September 2013, Congress again will review the Children&am... more In September 2013, Congress again will review the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009. Fourteen states cover the fetus only (and not the pregnant woman) under the "unborn child" provision of the current law. That the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act continues to make it possible for states to provide health insurance coverage to the fetus only has been critiqued for unnecessarily politicizing the law, dragging abortion and personhood debates into the matter of children's health insurance and creating unacceptable tensions between maternal and fetal health. Although the 2009 reauthorization attempted to remedy this issue by also providing coverage for the pregnant mother, it is imperative to review these changes and their effect before the 2013 reauthorization. To ensure optimum health care for both the fetus and the woman, we urge for removal of the "unborn child" pathway and promote coverage of both the fetus and the pregnant woman.

Research paper thumbnail of Uterus transplantation: ethical and regulatory challenges

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2013

Moving forward rapidly in the clinical research phase, uterus transplantation may be a future tre... more Moving forward rapidly in the clinical research phase, uterus transplantation may be a future treatment option for women with uterine factor infertility, which accounts for three per cent of all infertility in women. This new method of treatment would allow women, who currently rely on gestational surrogacy or adoption, to gestate and birth their own genetic offspring. Since uterus transplantation carries significant risk when compared with surrogacy and adoption as well as when compared with other organ transplants, it requires greater justification because its goals are quality of life, not life-saving, in their scope. It is important to address questions regarding the physical, psychosocial and ethical risks and benefits of uterus transplantation for all three parties involved--the patient, the donor and the potential child--as well as discuss the regulatory implications as research on uterus transplantations moves forward.

Research paper thumbnail of Harmonization of Ethics Policies in Pediatric Research

The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2011