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Petrie-Flom Welcomes 2024-2025 Student Fellows

Bill of Health

2026) hails from small-town Indiana and worked for three years as a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) before attending law school. 2025) is Assistant Professor at Brown University’s Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and a master’s candidate at Harvard Medical School’s Center for Bioethics.

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What Type of Salt Should You Buy? Rethinking 1924 Food Fortification Policy in 2024

Bill of Health

by Jessica Samuels For 100 years, food fortification , the practice of deliberately increasing the content of vitamins and minerals in a food, has been essential to combating public health crises. Public Health Service recommended that all women of reproductive age get 400 micrograms (mcg) of folic acid per day.

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Vizzy and Fortifying Alcoholic Beverages

Bill of Health

A few years ago, a Bill of Health post titled Jelly Beans, Booze, and B-Vitamins proposed fortifying cheap wines, hard liquors, and malt liquors with thiamine (vitamin B1). The post suggested this as a public health measure to prevent Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (WKS) in the homeless alcoholic population.

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TikTok, Tobacco, and Addiction, Oh My!

Bill of Health

Holding TikTok liable for addicting a generation to their app begins the process of remedying the mental health crisis in children. Jessica Samuels is a third-year dual degree law and public health student (J.D./MPH She has previously published work on the accuracy of ultrasound in predicting malignant ovarian masses.

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TEFCA Is Live – Clarifying Common Misperceptions

Healthcare IT Today

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to explore its use for reporting adverse effects in clinical trials. With this knowledge, we successfully leveraged the viability of Networked FHIR for prior authorization with UC Davis Health, Regence, and other eHealth Exchange participants. The initial group of Designated QHINs has grown to seven.

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From Discretion to Regulation: What FDA’s Final Rule Means for Laboratory Developed Tests

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In April 2024, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) issued a Final Rule amending the definition of in vitro diagnostics products (“IVDs”) found in 21 C.F.R. This phaseout is scheduled to occur over four years, starting from the publication date of the Final Rule on May 6, 2024.

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SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary for May and June 2024

SQA

NPMA Issues Draft Guidelines for Inspection of Medical Device Clinical Trial Sites, 14 June 2024 China NMPA has released a new guideline that aims to enhance the management of clinical trial institutions for medical devices, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and safeguarding public health.

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