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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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Fighting Wildfires with Chemicals: The Controversy and Danger of Flame Retardant Materials

Bill of Health

As a flurry of social media posts floods my feed, I have noticed public health officials plea for residents to remain indoors, minimizing the risk of breathing unhealthy air. About the author Jessica Samuels is a third-year dual degree law and public health student (J.D./MPH Further, Senate Bill No.

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

Bill of Health

Yet not until the end of the Ebola outbreak of 2014-2016 was a vaccine produced — by a German private laboratory — based on research done in the Public Health Department of Canada. As early as 1999, Health Canada reported over 5,000 laboratory accidents worldwide, with 190 deaths.

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Another Legislative Attempt to Revive Gene Patenting

Bill of Health

Utah 2014)) and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (774 F.3d 2014)) confirmed that Myriad’s patents covering naturally occurring DNA sequences, no matter how short, were ineligible for patent protection. The company proved to be wrong: both the federal district court in Utah (3 F. 3d 1213 (D. 3d 755 (Fed. Edinburgh), 750 F.3d

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

Bill of Health

Government Patent Use to Promote Public Health in the United States: Overcoming Nonpatent Exclusivities. Am J Public Health. Post-Marketing Requirements for Cancer Drugs Approved by the European Medicines Agency, 2004-2014. What to Know About the Alzheimer Drug Aducanumab (Aduhelm). JAMA Intern Med. 2022 Jun 6.