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

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Last month, the patent battle between COVID-19 mRNA vaccine manufacturers continued with BioNTech/Pfizer filing a strong defense and counter-claim to Moderna’s allegations of patent infringement. 2010/144740 and in the 966 patent. Moderna has since made over $30 billion in COVID-19 vaccine sales. By Aparajita Lath.

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Old Dogs and New Tricks: A Case for the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights & Public Health Emergencies

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Despite these experiences, Kenya failed take a human rights-based approach to responding to COVID-19, as was also the case in many other countries. Deepening this challenge, the enactment of new legislation during the COVID-19 pandemic — and especially in its early stages — was near impossible.

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Reflections on the United States Health Care System and the Right to Health

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Despite the important enactment in 2010 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which increases access to care by expanding Medicaid eligibility and protecting insurance coverage of people with pre-existing health conditions and disabilities, more than 25 million people remain uninsured. COVID-19 and the U.S.

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

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Agreement of treatment effects from observational studies and randomized controlled trials evaluating hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir-ritonavir, or dexamethasone for covid-19: meta-epidemiological study. The global impact of COVID-19 on drug purchases: A cross-sectional time series analysis. 2022 May 10;377:e069400.

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Federalizing Public Health

Bill of Health

That approach successfully transformed public and private health care — albeit not without challenges for coordination and political resistance — through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Supreme Court also ended this order. Certainly, federal authority will not replace or consume state and local authority.

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Amazon taps former head of Prime to lead health efforts

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Before that, he served as chief marketing officer of Sprint prepaid brands from 2003 through 2010. It also made its at-home COVID-19 tests widely available and signaled a potential move into other diagnostics, including sexually transmitted infection testing kits.

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Report: Pharma R&D ROI Falls to Lowest Level in 13 Years

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– Since 2021, much of the world has successfully adjusted to life where COVID-19 is more endemic as vaccines and treatments reduced the risk and severity of illness, however geopolitical turmoil and a global cost-of-living crisis have continued to drive serious instability in the health landscape. percent to 4.2