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

Bill of Health

FDA lawsuit and its potential implications for pharmaceutical regulation, and an estimate of U.S. public investment in the development of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. Eroding Judicial Deference to the FDA – Consequences for Public Health. JAMA Health Forum. J Health Polit Policy Law. N Engl J Med.

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Unlocking the mRNA Platform Technology: Walking the Talk with Investment Protection

Bill of Health

Together, these articles underscore the injustice of the present moment and emphasize the need to reform intellectual property protections for government-funded inventions of public health significance. Recent Research on Public Funding of mRNA Technology The first of the two new articles is an in-depth empirical study of U.S.

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Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2022

Healthcare It News

One example is partnering with Healthy Together, which uses the agency's API to provide veterans with secure mobile access to their health records. FDA authorizes at-home COVID-19 tests from Amazon, Roche, Siemens. And it will help public health officials improve public health policy and lower overall costs.

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Lift the Blood Ban, But Don’t Penalize PrEP Users 

Bill of Health

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it is lifting its highly contested blood deferral policy for men who have sex with men (MSM, i.e., gay and bisexual men), colloquially known as the blood ban. This fits a paradigm I describe in recent work , the demedicalization of preventive health care.

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SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary 5 | Monthly Update 2021

SQA

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a series of policy recommendations to address the vulnerabilities in United States pharmaceutical supply chains. b) and 320.31(d)(3)).

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GOP House Opens With Abortion Agenda

Kaiser Health News

On one hand, the FDA has relaxed some of the risk evaluation and mitigation strategies (REMS) from the prescribing rules surrounding abortion pills. The FDA puts these extra restrictions or safeguards in place for certain drugs to add additional protection. Some advocates say these pills simply do not bring that level or risk.

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FDA’s Brief To The Fifth Circuit in the AHM Case Is Worth A Read

Drug & Device Law

A perusal of amicus briefs drew more than a few “they should know what they are talking about here” responses to groups of food and drug law scholars (as opposed to DDL bloggers), former FDA commissioners, former FDA officials, and former DOJ officials, among others. The appellate brief from FDA bears that out well.

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