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Book Review: ‘The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India’

Bill of Health

However, the book not only highlights problems but also offers several well-thought-out and actionable paths to reform. The book explains that despite these events, DEG adulteration continues due to regulatory failures. The book contains eleven chapters that provide a complete picture of the drug regulatory landscape in India.

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Legal Preparedness for Aging and Caregiving

Bill of Health

As a result of my personal experiences and my professional background as a Professor of Law and Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University, I wrote a book called Aging with a Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow. Only 46% of U.S. adults have wills , and even among seniors, the figure is only 76%.

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Public Health Law’s Future Begins in the Classroom

Bill of Health

By Taleed El-Sabawi The use of emergency public health powers by state and local governments during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic led to intense public criticism followed by legislative attempts (include some successes) to strip state executives of this authority. This has led some to ask: is this the end of public health law?

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The Not-So-Sacred Human Genome: What South Africans Think About Heritable Human Genome Editing

Bill of Health

The study engaged a diverse group of 30 South Africans in three evenings of deliberations on the governance of HHGE. Moreover, there were calls for the South African government to invest in HHGE research in order for South Africa to become an active player in this research space.

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

Health Populi

During the height of the pandemic, there was a predisposition to give up personal health and location tracing data to government to help control the spread of the disease. What a difference seven years makes, with the latter years book-ended by the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica event and the global coronavirus pandemic.

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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

Health Populi

With government’s relaxing regulations, health care providers could move staff and resources virtually from place to place, regardless of State licensure or other barriers to providing telemedicine, remote monitoring, and other flavors of telehealth. Relaxing regulations can inspire creativity and entrepreneurial behavior.

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Pandemic Nihilism, Social Murder, and the Banality of Evil

Bill of Health

These daily losses matter inestimably at a human level, yet they do not matter in any meaningful way at all to the public and private institutions that govern our lives. The first is a scene from the film “And The Band Played On,” based on the book of the same name, about the AIDS epidemic.

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