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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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One of the most glaring reasons for this failure was that the Kenyan government simply did not know how to do so. They clarify these obligations within the context of public health emergencies and provide clear guidance for States and members of society on how to navigate these emergencies.

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The UN Must Take Steps To Be an Accountable Player in Public Health

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If a government commits a tort, it can be sued — but the United Nations cannot be. In at least two major incidents in the last two decades, the United Nations has been responsible for major public health crises, and victims of the crises have found themselves with no recourse in any court system. By Bailey Kennedy.

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

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Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues. Government Patent Use to Promote Public Health in the United States: Overcoming Nonpatent Exclusivities.

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

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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

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dollars (USD) and additional government losses at $11 billion USD due to controlling livestock movement and depopulating infected livestock. Between 1950 and 2010, Manhattan, Kansas had 76 moderate tornadoes, and 13 severe ones, twice the average American city. By November of 2008, a new President was elected. Who was she?

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The Fourth Amendment and the Post-Roe Future of Privacy

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Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, this bill may play an important role in protecting reproductive health data against government overreach and new forms of surveillance technologies. In the 2010 case Crispin v. In the wake of the recent Dobbs v. Christian Audigier, Inc.

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

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2010/144740 and in the 966 patent. More broadly, BioNTech and Pfizer highlight Moderna’s surreptitious conduct of obtaining its mRNA patents without disclosing the government’s role in its funding and development. Indeed, as made public, the U.S. Moderna has since made over $30 billion in COVID-19 vaccine sales.