Motorcycle Policy and the Public Interest: A Recommendation for a New Type of Partial Motorcycle Helmet Law.

Motorcycle helmet laws are perceived to infringe upon individual rights even though they reduce mortality and health care costs. We describe proposed helmet legislation that protects individual rights and provides incentives for helmet use through a differential motorcycle registration fee that requires higher fees for those who wish to ride without a helmet.

Legal Innovations to Advance a Culture of Health.

As conceptualized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and its partners, a culture of health centers on a society in which health flourishes across all populations and sectors. Law, among other tools, is critical to advancing a culture of health across multiple arenas. In this manuscript, Network for Public Health Law colleagues illustrate how legal innovations at all levels of government contribute to societal health.

Knowledge of PCSK9 and continued educational gaps: evaluating the impact of continuing medical education.

Reducing serum levels of low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) is an important treatment objective in both the primary and secondary prevention settings. Although statin therapy remains the gold standard for reducing LDL-C, for a variety of reasons, many patients taking statins do not achieve adequate cholesterol lowering. This has created a need for new treatment approaches to manage dyslipidemia.