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Biosafety Labs, Public Safety, and Politics

Bill of Health

After all, following 9/11 President Bush (and VP Cheney and Secretary Rumsfeld) were extremely concerned about bioterrorism, resulting in Bush’s presidential directive of 2004 (reauthorized in 2007 ) to improve the country’s biodefense plans and weapons.

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Citational Racism: How Leading Medical Journals Reproduce Segregation in American Medical Knowledge

Bill of Health

We also discovered that JNMA was not included in the standard Elsevier ScienceDirect package, restricting our access to full texts from issues after the 2007 archive created by the National Library of Medicine.

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The COVID-19 Pandemic Has Accelerated Our Demand for Wellness – Learning from Ogilvy

Health Populi

The first chart illustrates that most people see each of the seven industries studied as wellness channels, from the more obvious health-oriented categories like skincare and food to hospitality (hotels and airlines), financial services, and automotive (which I’ve covered as far back as 2007 here on Health Populi).

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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

Health Populi

Today, one-half of the categories speak to more “medical”/clinical areas that are disease specific, addressing women’s health, medication adherence, and healthcare administration workflows.

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“The virus is the boss” — U.S. lives and livelihoods at the beginning of 2021

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: While the 2007-8 Great Recession was considered more of a “He-Cession,” this round of U.S. You can see million-person differences for registered nurses, nursing assistants, and personal care aides, and half-million worker deltas for LPNs and medical assistants.

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BPA-free Does Not Mean Bisphenol-Free and How Regulators are Grappling to Deal with It

Bill of Health

This law is unique among US state laws, many of which ban whole classes of chemicals in certain products, because it requires that every five years state public health regulators select groups of chemicals to restrict or eliminate when safer alternatives are available.

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Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: What Senator Paul Wellstone advocated for and knew way back in 2000 was that mental health is just part of health, and needed to be embedded into primary care and the U.S. health care system in terms of workflow and payment parity. Paul died in a plane crash in 2002.

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