Health Law: Home

This is for Health Law Master's students, JD students in Health Law seminar classes, and anyone else interested in Health Law.

Good Places to Start

This is a list of places to get started. You can find more specific resources on the other tabs available in this library guide.

Findlaw Health Care Law Guide
Georgetown University Health Law Research Guide
Justia Health Law Guide
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Health Law Research Guide
NSU Health Professions Library Guides
NSU's Health Professions Library has a lot of resources for medical articles as well as health policy laid out by subject.
NSU's Health Professions Library Databases Guide
Pace Law Library Health Law Research Guide

Panza Maurer Law Library

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Tutorials on Health Law & Medical Research

Introduction to Health Law Research

Health law is a complex field that involves federal and state case law, government administrative agencies and organizations, regulations, and much overlap with the medical field. It would be most beneficial for any researcher to begin their research by using secondary resources to obtain a general understanding of background information, which will ultimately lead to the most relevant statutes, regulations and case law. You should start your research broadly, and gradually narrow down your topic.

Here are the Bloomberg, Lexis and Westlaw Databases we recommend for this topic:

Bloomberg Law: Health Care Practice Center
Lexis: Healthcare Law Practice Center
Westlaw: Practitioner Insights for Health, Health Law Cases, 50 State Regulatory Surveys: Health Care, 50 State Statutory Surveys: Health Care, Medical Litigator

Learn the Lingo

Health law has an incredible amount of difficult terminology that you may not have seen before. Below are some resources to help you decipher what the experts are talking about.

Center for Disease Control Acronyms, Glossary, and Reference Terms
Medical Library Association: What Did My Doctor Say?
The Free Medical Dictionary
Glossary of Terms Used in Pharmacology
Glossary of Terms Associated with Aging, Disability, Long Term Case (HHS)
MedlinePlus: Understanding Medical Words A tutorial with quizzes that walks you through how to understand medical terminology.

Credits

The following individuals contributed pages, text, or information to this library guide: Sylvia Cano, Natalie Greenberg, Amal Masri, Carolyn Brown, Becka Rich, and Mary Paige Smith. Portions of the text are taken, with permission, from final projects for Advanced Legal Research.