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A Categorical No to Categorical Accommodation Denials Related to COVID-19?

Bill of Health

Remote accommodations were granted freely during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, but in 2021, the in-person aspect of teaching and learning was suddenly deemed essential, and at many institutions, remote classes came to an end. That same medication rendered him high-risk for severe illness or death from COVID-19.

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Does It Really Matter How the COVID-19 Pandemic Started?

Bill of Health

By Barbara Pfeffer Billauer Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, much air time and social media space has been allocated to the lab leak vs. natural spillover dispute regarding the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Debating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic is a fool’s errand. Generally, COVID-19 specimens are handled in BSL-3 labs.

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How Retailers Are the New Public Health Purveyors

Health Populi

CVS stopped selling tobacco on October 1, 2014. In that moment, a Fortune 100 company stepped an entire foot, and not just a toe, into public health waters. [I I covered that event with joy here in Health Populi as soon as it was announced months earlier on February 14th]. That was a watershed moment in U.S.

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Using Legal Preparedness to Minimize Liability Barriers to Accessing Pandemic Vaccine and Medical Countermeasures

Bill of Health

In a public health emergency, pharmaceutical manufacturers’ liability concerns can slow the deployment of urgently needed vaccines and other medical countermeasures (MCMs). Products used during public health emergencies raise unique issues either because of their novelty, scale and type of proposed use, or regulatory pathway.

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Workplace Accommodations in a Post-COVID Era

Bill of Health

The silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic is that it has opened the door to new opportunities to improve our society. The workplace accommodations gained during COVID-19 are nothing new to the community of workers with disabilities; some workers had already been approved to work at home prior to the pandemic. By Scott J.

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Maven Clinic Announces $125 Million Series F Round of Funding to Chart the Next Decade of Innovation in Women’s and Family Health

Healthcare IT Today

Increasing Depth of Support Across Maven’s End-to-End Platform Maternity & Newborn Care Since 2014, Maven’s Maternity & Newborn Care program has set a new standard for prenatal and postpartum care. Parenting & Pediatrics Amid a parenting mental health crisis recently recognized as a public health issue by the U.S.

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The Physician Payments Sunshine Act – Compliance in a Nutshell                                                                     

AIHC

Detailed documentation of financial interactions, including consulting fees, research grants, speaking fees, and gifts Reporting Categories Research Payments Ownership and Investment Interests General Payments Natures of Payment: Consulting and Speaking Fees Honoraria, Gifts, Royalties Grants and Research Charitable Contributions Entertainment, Travel, (..)