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

Bill of Health

Legally speaking, patent pledges are comparable to the open source software licenses that underlie much of the world’s technology infrastructure and the Creative Commons licenses that make billions of online images, videos and other content freely available (both discussed here ). Tesla and Toyota) to software (e.g,

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COVID ‘Compromise’ on International IP Underscores Need for New Approach

Bill of Health

It only narrowly modifies compulsory licenses of patents covering COVID vaccines. Moreover, it imposes additional restrictions on use of compulsory licenses. Moreover, Brazil’s new compulsory license law models another critical feature that domestic laws should have – a way around data exclusivity. Third, the U.S.

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

Bill of Health

During large transnational public health crises, global demand soars for diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines. R&D funded prior to the onset of a large public health crisis is governed by contracts negotiated before problems of product scarcity and inequitable allocation become mainstream problems.

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A Blueprint for Solving the U.S. Nursing Shortage Crisis

HIT Consultant

The World Health Organization declared 2020 the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife to spotlight nurses’ impact on healthcare and recognize the 200 th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birthday. Enabling nurses to practice at the top of their licenses. But it also shined a light on nurses’ courage and heroism.

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Reclaiming Global Public Health

Bill of Health

The answer to one of the most important public health questions of our time — who gets access to vaccines? — Private decisions did not match public health need. Monopoly control presents profound questions for public health governance. Together, these decisions had a profound impact on global public health.

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The Global Challenge of Unhealthy Diets: Front-of-Package Labeling for America

Bill of Health

by Alice Bryk Silveira The alarming rise in diabetes and obesity rates in the United States has placed significant strain on health care systems and poses a serious public health threat. Despite international momentum and calls from public health experts, the United States remains behind. Since 2009, the U.S.

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Where telemedicine is headed now that the PHE has ended

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The COVID-19 public health emergency came to an end on May 11. This also happens to coincide with the World Health Organization declaring an end to the COVID-19 global health emergency. What does the end of the public health emergency mean for the future of the healthcare industry?