News & Current Awareness

• BNA (all titles)
• FDA Newsroom
• Health Blog (Wall Street Journal)
• Health Care Policy Report (BNA)
• Healthcare News (Lexis)
• Health Law Prof Blog
• Health Law Reporter (BNA)
• Health Policy Tracking Service (Westlaw)
• Inside CMS (Lexis)
• Medicare Report (BNA)
• Pharmaceutical Law and Industry Report (BNA)
• United States Law Week (BNA)

Secondary Sources

• Health Care Law Review Articles (Lexis)
• Health Law Journals and Texts (Westlaw)

• Health Care and Antitrust Law (Westlaw)
• Health Care Law: A Practical Guide (Bender, Lexis)
• Health Law Practice Guide (AHLA, Westlaw)
• FDA Law, by O'Reilly (Westlaw)
• Medicare and Medicaid Fraud and Abuse (Westlaw)

 

Primary Legal Materials

• Code of Federal Regulations (GPO) (FDSys)
• Federal Cases (WL)
• Federal and State Health Care cases (Lexis)
• Federal Register (Hein Online)
• Federal Register (Lexis)
• Public Laws (GPO) (FDSys)
• Public Laws (Historical, Hein Online)
• State Codes (Lexis, combined health materials)
• State Health Care Regulations (Lexis)
• United States Code (GPO) (FDSys)
• United States Code Annotated (Westlaw)

 

Administrative Materials

• FDA Guidance Documents (Westlaw)
• Fraud Prevention & Detection (HHS Inspector General)
• HHS Departmental Appeals Board Decisions (Lexis)
• Medicare Manuals CMS (Westlaw)
• Physician Self-Referral Materials (CMS)
• PRRB and HCFA Decisions (Westlaw)

• FDSys (GPO)
• Compilation of Presidential Documents (GPO)

 

Federal Agencies

• Health & Human Services
  • About HHS
  • Office of Inspector General (OIG)
  • Policies and Regulations
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
  • Regulations and Guidance
• Department of Agriculture (USDA)
  • Laws and Regulations
• Employee Benefits Security Administration (DOL)
  • Laws and Regulations
• Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
  • Office of the General Counsel
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  • Dockets Management
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) (Commerce)
  • IP Law and Policy
• Social Security Administration (SSA)

 

Other Government Sources

• Bills and Bill Tracking (Lexis)
• Bills and Legislative Information (THOMAS)
• Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Health Collection
• Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Justice Department agencies
• State Law Sources (Findlaw)
• U.S. Supreme Court
• White House
  • Health Care Information
• Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (GPO)
• Google U.S. Government
• USA.gov
  • Health and Nutrition

Select Databases

• Congressional Universe
• Foreign Law Guide (a/k/a Reynolds & Flores)
• Index to Legal Periodicals
• LegalTrac
• Medline (PubMed)
• Science Direct
• Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

• Lexis Directory of Sources
• Westlaw Database Directory

General Research Resources

• BU eJournals
• BU eResources by Subject
  • Health and Medicine
• BU Libraries Catalog
• Google
• Google Scholar

• BNA subscriptions (all)
• LLRX Research Guides
• New York Times (Lexis)

 

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