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Outlive by Peter Attia: A Book Review

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By Bobby Stroup If you want to read a book about how to guarantee a 100-year lifespan, Peter Atta’s Outlive is going to disappoint you. the four horsemen diseases, and how you might increase your healthspan, then you should get a copy of the book today. So how does Attia’s book fall short? In summary, Medicine 2.0

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

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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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Public Health Law’s Future Begins in the Classroom

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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. health care and public health are not the same.

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Blue Booking Long COVID: Accounting for Long-Term COVID-19 Complications in Social Security Disability Benefits Evaluations

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Here I suggest a potential solution in amending the Social Security Administration’s Blue Book to include Long COVID in the evaluation of disability benefits. Essentially, the Blue Book is a list of medical conditions and disability criteria that the SSA checks when deciding whether someone should receive disability benefits.

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Transdisciplinary Integration: The Only Way Forward for Public Health

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As we look toward National Public Health Week amid two long years of a pandemic, reflection for us at the Center for Public Health Law Research has focused on how we move forward in a mostly broken public health system. By Scott Burris. These competencies convey two big ideas about law.

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‘We Want Them Infected’: An Excerpt from Jonathan Howard’s New Book on the COVID-19 Pandemic

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This excerpt from the new book titled “ We Want Them Infected ” is printed with permission from Jonathan Howard, MD and Redhawk Publications. link] The post ‘We Want Them Infected’: An Excerpt from Jonathan Howard’s New Book on the COVID-19 Pandemic appeared first on Bill of Health.

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Tasmania transforming outpatient services with online booking, eReferral system

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The Tasmanian government has recently released a four-year strategy to transform outpatient services across its public health system. Tasmania's Transforming Outpatient Services Strategy seeks to shorten wait times, improve communication, and modernise processes.