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

Bill of Health

Monsanto and Myriad) ( this 2015 article discusses the history and taxonomy of patent pledges, many of which are collected in this online database ). The unprecedented scope of the COVID-19 pandemic quickly gave rise to a surge of pledging activity, which is detailed in this article (see pp. Tesla and Toyota) to software (e.g,

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Using Contracts to Lessen Inequities in Access to Medicines in Pandemics and Epidemics

Bill of Health

At the research and development (R&D) stage, government funders can bind producers to equity goals through targeted contractual provisions, as we explain in a recently-published Nature Biotechnology article. The first pathway is requiring funding recipients to use out-licensing to alleviate scarcity.

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Automating Accessibility in Health IT – Part 2

Healthcare IT Today

The first article in this series, Disabilities and Accessibility in Health IT: The Need Is Constant , introduced the importance of designing web sites and other health care tools for many different types of people. In this article, we’ll look at how far you can go with the automation of web site accessibility.

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Building a Culture of Patient Safety Starts with Reducing Staff Burnout

AIHC

This article emphasizes the need to improve patient safety and outcomes through reducing staff burnout. What Patient Safety Is When discussing “patient safety” in the context of this article, it may be helpful to quote definitions, examples and descriptions of what a safety culture is.

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SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary | Monthly Update 2023 – January

SQA

A new template for the Certificate of a Pharmaceutical Product will be put into use in line with China’s pharmaceutical export practices and the latest World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. The application/notification must be submitted via the EUDAMED database (Article 69 IVDR).

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Better Health Care Tests, Faster

Healthcare IT Today

The previous articles in this series laid out some of the issues in health care affecting testing , and the value of data. This article looks at some specific problems and solutions. Virax Biolabs uses data from the World Health Organization and others to develop tests quickly.

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SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary | Monthly Update 2023 – July and August 2023

SQA

World Health Organization (WHO) Medical Product Alert N o 5/2023: Substandard (Contaminated) Syrup Medicines, 19 July 2023 Medical Product Alert N o 5/2023 refers to a batch of substandard (contaminated) Naturcold Syrup identified in Cameroon and first reported to WHO on 13 March 2023.

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