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

Bill of Health

government funding, announced that it felt “a special obligation … to use our resources to bring this pandemic to an end as quickly as possible.” Moderna broke that promise on August 26, 2022, when it sued Pfizer and BioNTech , the producers of a competing mRNA vaccine, for patent infringement in the U.S. From 2020 to 2022, the U.S.

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Disability-Inclusive Climate Action in Bangladesh: Gaps and Opportunities

Bill of Health

Other researchers have found that “ many persons with disabilities do not receive any humanitarian support from NGOs or the Government ” following natural disasters. For me, the summer 2022 floods in Sunamganj and Sylhet districts exposed these considerable gaps in starkly human terms.

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What the New York City Marathon Can Teach Us About Equitable Access to Vaccines

Bill of Health

The most extreme embodiment of this phenomenon, vaccine nationalism , happens when perfectly lawful tools — contracts known as advance purchase agreements — are used to skew the allocation of vaccine doses to wealthier governments and their populations whenever there is a surge in transnational demand for a given vaccine.

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How CMS is boosting telehealth and RPM with new CPT codes

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Why is it critical that federal policymakers take specific actions to encourage health service expansion and make telehealth platforms a more permanent fixture? It's important that the federal government set policies that align incentives with the outcomes we hope to see for patients: higher quality care at lower overall costs.

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The 2022 Health Populi TrendCast for Consumers and Health Citizens

Jane Sarashon

This feels especially apt right “now” as we enter 2022, Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, with people mentally stressed, anxious, and shrugging off the Omicron variant – while taking on more DIY life-flows, self-care and desire for (more) control. We start at a macro bird’s-eye view with Gartner’s top US consumer and cultural trends for 2022.

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How Trust and Geopolitics Will Impact Health and Business – Edelman 2022 Trust Barometer at the World Economic Forum in Davos

Jane Sarashon

When we think about the state of Trust in in mid-2022, there is some good news: Trust is rising (at least in democratic countries, while falling in autocratic ones). ” Edelman further warned: “This is the tinder on the floor of the world situation that, with one spark, is populism and yellow vests and more.”

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AI’s Ability to Manipulate Decision Making Requires a Moratorium on Its Use in Obtaining Consent for Biomedical Research

Bill of Health

In 1996, then-President Clinton apologized to Tuskegee survivors and make a pledge to their families that the government would work rebuild “the broken trust” by committing to the ethical principles incorporated in today’s protection laws to “mak[e] sure there is never again another episode like this one.”