Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Opioid-related deaths grew some 20% since 2011 in the U.S. health care versus the OECD peer nations. fall below the OECD average, and the proportion of people who self-report that they are in “good health” is the third highest in the OECD. and are impacting mortality rates in Canada, Estonia and Sweden, too. For the U.S.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Frequently labelled a scholar-activist, she combines academic research and scholarship that bridges law, development, and public health with grassroots work and policy advocacy. Although I’m the only Senior Fellow focusing on global health work at PFC, affiliated researchers also contribute enormously to GHRP. 1991), M.P.H.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

More than four times as many Black women believe that it’s a bad time to be Black in America in 2020 versus 2011, we learn from The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health from Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). The public health pandemic has converged in 2020 with the negative impacts of financial stress and mental health tolls.

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Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Since the FDA requires pre-approval of any warnings about off-label uses, preemption at some point should have been pre-ordained under the Mensing ( 2011+1 ) independence principle, but off-label use did not really figure in Zofran ’s analysis. OTC drugs also have an express preemption provision, but it contains an exception for Prop 65.

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Drug & Device Law

OCTOBER 7, 2022

While most contraceptives are short-acting, in part to allow for the possibility of conception when desired, there is clearly a role from public health perspective—among other perspectives—for long-acting and permanent contraception. (Our posts go back for more than six years.) The facts of Garcia are sparse. 2022 WL 4536240, *1.

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Drug & Device Law

JUNE 28, 2022

In enacting the FDCA, Congress created the FDA and charged it with “promot[ing] the public health by promptly and efficiently reviewing clinical research and taking appropriate action on the marketing of regulated products in a timely manner.” 393(b)(2)(B). 1, 16-22 (2016) (collecting examples). Zogenix I , 2014 WL 1454696, at *1-2.

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Drug & Device Law

MAY 10, 2022

The second part of the Act is likewise geared toward preventing confusion or misleading the public but by requiring certain disclosures accompany all ads concerning drugs and devices approved by the FDA: Such advertisements must include the warning: “Do not stop taking a prescribed medication without first consulting with your doctor.

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