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

Bill of Health

One outcome of this work was the 2008 apology by Ronald Davis, the AMA’s immediate past president, for the AMA’s history of racial exclusion at the NMA’s annual meeting in Atlanta. It is an important ingredient towards reducing bias in medical knowledge and the racial inequities in health care this bias helps produce. What we found.

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Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy

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The selections feature topics ranging from a discussion of potential pathways to enable government patent use before nonpatent exclusivities expire, to an examination of medical oncologists who receive more than $100,000 annually from pharmaceutical companies, to an analysis of the launch prices of new drugs from 2008-2021. JCO Oncol Pract.

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It’s Mental Illness Awareness Week: “What I Wish I Had Known” About Mental Health

Health Populi

For 2022’s campaign, here are some key data about mental illness in the U.S. youth aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year… a growing concern. Finally, we must expand the mental health workforce, starting with young people in school to inspire students to enter career paths serving well-being.

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Salus Populi: Training the Judiciary in the Social Drivers of Health

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While cases impacting the SDOH can be landmark Supreme Court cases, such as the ruling on the CDC’s eviction moratorium during the COVID-19 pandemic, judges also make decisions on a daily basis that can affect the SDOH and thereby health. Take, for example, a child welfare case out of New York, In re Brittany T , 852 N.Y.S.2d 2d 475 (N.Y.

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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. The site search was narrowed to six choices in 2008. The violations.

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Ethical Challenges Associated with the Protection of Pets in War

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What kind of ethics are we talking about? Today, the concerns about what it would mean to accommodate pets under humanitarian law and refugee law regimes — or whether just talking about this would amount to a form of “species treason” and represent unethical humanitarian discourse — remain acute.

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Our New Remote Workplace Culture Creates Opportunities for Disabled Employees

Bill of Health

Remote work also has the potential to raise awareness about the ableism that exists within many workplaces today. Yet when the ADA was originally enacted in 1990, and in 2008, when it was substantially amended, technology had not yet advanced to where it is today.

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