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Using Legal Preparedness to Minimize Liability Barriers to Accessing Pandemic Vaccine and Medical Countermeasures

Bill of Health

In a public health emergency, pharmaceutical manufacturers’ liability concerns can slow the deployment of urgently needed vaccines and other medical countermeasures (MCMs). Products used during public health emergencies raise unique issues either because of their novelty, scale and type of proposed use, or regulatory pathway.

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Regulators Need to Pay More Attention to Long-term and Nursing Care

Healthcare IT Today

But these facilities are afterthoughts in our health care system, and were excluded in particular from the huge digitization of health care triggered in the United States by the 2009 HITECH act and 2010 Affordable Care Act. The next step would be to achieve real interoperability in health records, a still elusive goal.

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Biosafety Labs, Public Safety, and Politics

Bill of Health

dollars (USD) and additional government losses at $11 billion USD due to controlling livestock movement and depopulating infected livestock. The decision to site the lab at Kansas State was only made in 2009 and that was after a long site selection competition. By November of 2008, a new President was elected. Who was she?

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Healthcare Organizations Warned About Evil Corp. Cybercrime Syndicate

HIPAA Journal

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued a warning to the healthcare and public health sector (HPH) about one of the most capable and aggressive cybercrime syndicates currently in operation – Evil Corp.

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COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Infringement? The Battle Between Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech Continues

Bill of Health

By 2009, before Moderna’s patent application, scientists knew that the full-length spike protein is highly immunogenic and can be used to induce protection against certain viruses. Indeed, as made public, the U.S. government committed more than one billion dollars to Moderna for development of its COVID-19 vaccines.

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The NCAA May Pay a Healthy Sum to Student Athletes

Bill of Health

Health care will also be a critical part of future student-athlete compensation conversations. The NCAA describes the compensation lawsuits as beginning in 2009 , yet exploring this topic reveals the debate is not so novel. The combined risk of this sport’s violence and its growing popularity necessitated governance.

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#MaternalHealthAwarenessDay: Three Policies to Push

Bill of Health

In 2021, the federal government made the state plan amendment option available temporarily through the American Rescue Plan. However, in 2009, the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act restored this potential benefit for lawfully residing pregnant people and children.

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