New York State Task Force on Life and the Law Reports 1985 - 2017

Allocation of ventilators in a pandemic

• Ventilator Allocation Guidelines (2015)

Dietary supplements

• Dietary Supplements: Balancing Consumer Choice & Safety (2005)

End-of-life decision-making / decisions for incapable patients

• Do Not Resuscitate Orders (1986)

• The Determination of Death (1986)

• Life-Sustaining Treatment: Making Decisions and Appointing a Health Care Agent (1987)

• When Others Must Choose: Deciding for Patients Without Capacity (1992)

• When Death is Sought: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context (1994)

• Recommendation Regarding the Extension of the Family Health Care Decisions Act to Include Hospice (2010)

• Recommendations for Extending the Family Health Care Decisions Act to Medicare and/or Medicaid-Certified and State-Licensed Agencies, Programs, and Settings (2013)

• Recommendations for Amending the Family Health Care Decisions Act to Include Health Care Decisions for Persons with Developmental Disabilities and Patients in or Transferred from Mental Health Facilities (2016)

Genetic testing and genomic medicine

• Genetic Testing and Screening in the Age of Genomic Medicine (2000)

Human subjects research

• Report and Recommendations for Research With Human Subjects Who Lack Capacity (2014)

Organ and tissue procurement, allocation and transplantation

• The Required Request Law (1986)

• Transplantation in New York State: The Procurement and Distribution of Organs and Tissues Part 1 (1988)

• Transplantation in New York State: The Procurement and Distribution of Organs and Tissues Part 2 (1988)

Reproductive and beginning-of-life Issues

• Fetal Extrauterine Survivability (1988)

• Surrogate Parenting: Analysis and Recommendations for Public Policy (1988)

• Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Analysis and Recommendations for Public Policy (1988)

• Revisiting Surrogate Parenting: Analysis and Recommendations for Public Policy on Gestational Surrogacy (2016)