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The “Food Wars” and the Courts

Bill of Health

Noting the explosion in rates of obesity and chronic diseases among children caused by the ubiquity of inexpensive, good-tasting, super-sized, energy-dense foods, a presentation warned the CEOs that their companies could face a wave of litigation akin to the onslaught against Big Tobacco.

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What the New York City Marathon Can Teach Us About Equitable Access to Vaccines

Bill of Health

Vaccines are pharmaceutical products, a critical tool in public and global health. At the same time, they are regularly treated as commodities , often in ways that are completely divorced from their public health value. Operative criteria of “burden” and related considerations (e.g., the infection rate?

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COVID-19 and the future of care delivery

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The message that adhering to this request, and using other tools to communicate, to help to protect our health and care systems has been understood and accepted by the vast majority of citizens. Learn more about the HIMSS & Health 2.0 Staff in all sectors have demonstrated abundant goodwill in shared learning.

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

Bill of Health

Importantly, most of the commitments made under the Open COVID Pledge were designed to expire at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as determined by the World Health Organization (WHO) or January 1, 2023, whichever occurs first (the 2023 date is now in the process of being extended). Moderna’s Pledge. Updating” the Pledge.

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COP29 and the UNFCCC’s Health Turn: Progress or Peril?

Bill of Health

A diverse constellation of stakeholders from the global health community including the World Health Organization, charitable foundations, NGOs, and private entities came together to address the inextricable links between planetary health and human health. Alicia Ely Yamin J.D.,

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Data Lights the Path Toward Ethical COVID-19 Vaccination Distribution

Healthcare IT Today

As millions of healthcare workers begin receiving the first vaccination to protect against COVID-19, public health officials and government leaders continue wrestling with not only the operational challenges of scale—this is the first mass vaccination since smallpox (1958-1977) and polio (1980s-present)—but also […].

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Psychedelic Inequities and Unexplored Risk: Colonization, Commercialization, and Regulation

Bill of Health

There is a common and problematic misconception that colonization was an isolated historical event and that the present is somehow divorced from its precedent. To explore how colonization drives health inequities, we have to acknowledge the causal relationship between what is past and what is present and think critically about colonization.