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Biosafety Labs, Public Safety, and Politics

Bill of Health

dollars (USD) and additional government losses at $11 billion USD due to controlling livestock movement and depopulating infected livestock. The site search was narrowed to six choices in 2008. By November of 2008, a new President was elected. The selection of the site was questioned by the Government Accountability Office.

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Donor Government Funding for HIV in Low- and Middle-Income Countries in 2021

KFF

This report tracks funding levels of the donor governments that collectively provide the bulk of international assistance for AIDS through bilateral programs and contributions to multilateral organizations. Donor governments disbursed US$7.5

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No Take-Backs: Moderna’s Attempt to Renege on its Vaccine Patent Pledge

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government funding, announced that it felt “a special obligation … to use our resources to bring this pandemic to an end as quickly as possible.” government purchased millions of doses of Moderna’s mRNA vaccine, along with large quantities of vaccines manufactured by Pfizer. 2008)) and Germany. By Jorge L. Updating” the Pledge.

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Systemic Failures Need Systemic Solutions: COVID-19 and Macromedical Regulation

Bill of Health

In Macromedical Regulation , 82 Ohio State Law Journal 727 (2021), we address the nation’s systemic failure to contain an infectious contagion, and we offer solutions by deriving lessons from the 2008 financial contagion.

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Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy

Bill of Health

Biomarker qualification at the European Medicines Agency: a review of biomarker qualification procedures from 2008 to 2020. A New Way to Contain Unaffordable Medication Costs – Exercising the Government’s Existing Rights. Bakker E, Hendrikse NM, Ehmann F, van der Meer DS, Llinares Garcia J, Vetter T, Starokozhko V, Mol PGM.

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Physician venture investor talks telehealth, digital therapeutics, Medicaid tech

Healthcare It News

For many years, mental health has lagged between physical health both in access to treatment and reimbursement – this is despite the mandates of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. Fortunately, government, investors and startups are working together to close some of these care gaps.

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Accenture Federal Services to Acquire Cognosante

HIT Consultant

– Founded in 2008 by Michele Kang, Cognosante has grown rapidly to become a trusted provider of innovative technology solutions with its federal government clients, including healthcare programs supporting veterans, active-duty military, patients, beneficiaries, providers, and payors.