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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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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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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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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: This 21-year low for the tech industry has implications for health care as digital health technology blurs into everyday healthcare the way “e-business” and the Internet melted into our daily work and personal life-flows.

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

Bill of Health

Stephen Oross, a tenured member of the Kutztown University psychology department, suffered a heart attack and underwent double bypass surgery in 2014, returning to full-time teaching a year later. After his condition worsened in early 2021, he received a heart transplant.

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Physician burnout is at an all-time high, says AMA

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in 2014 and 45.5% "Physician shortages, already projected to be severe before COVID, have almost become a public health emergency," he added. The study, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, found that the prevalence of burnout among U.S. physicians was 62.8% in 2021, compared with 38.2% in 2020, 43.9% in 2017, 54.4%

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One in Two Americans with Work-Based Insurance Worries That Healthcare Costs Could Lead to Bankruptcy

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: U.S. workers with private insurance more likely report poor access to health care, greater costs of care, and lower satisfaction with care versus people covered by public health insurance plans — whether Medicaid, Medicare, VHA or military coverage. households.

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