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No Take-Backs: Moderna’s Attempt to Renege on its Vaccine Patent Pledge

Bill of Health

On October 8, 2020, Moderna, the maker of one of the first mRNA-based vaccines for COVID-19 and the recipient of billions of dollars of U.S. As a result, it publicly promised that “ while the pandemic continues, Moderna will not enforce our COVID-19 related patents against those making vaccines intended to combat the pandemic.”

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Will NIH Learn from Myriad when Settling Its mRNA Inventorship Dispute with Moderna?

Bill of Health

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is currently embroiled in a dispute over the ownership of patent rights to Moderna’s flagship mRNA COVID-19 vaccine (mRNA-1273). If so, NIH, their employer, would be a co-owner of the vaccine technology and could, in theory, make it more broadly available around the world.

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Can Children Consent to the COVID Vaccine? The Case of Foster Care and Juvenile Justice

Bill of Health

Despite pediatric COVID-19 vaccine availability, many youth remain unvaccinated , and are thus at higher risk of life-altering outcomes as a result of contracting COVID-19. [1]. Youth in the foster care system and those who are justice-involved face additional challenges during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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Mainstreaming Reproductive Genetic Innovation

Bill of Health

In 2015, Congress included a now-recurring budget rider in appropriations legislation that prevents the FDA from using its funding to consider IND applications involving “heritable genetic modification.” using administrative law: (1) adapting the U.K.’s using administrative law: (1) adapting the U.K.’s

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Trust in Healthcare is Under Stress in the US and Globally, Edelman Finds

Health Populi

You’re stressed, I’m stressed; most of us have felt stress in the COVID-19 era which began in the U.S. now, looking at health citizens’ trust in five segments of the health care industry between 2015 and 2021. The vaccination-willingness gap in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2020. and around the world.

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What is HIPAA Enforcement Discretion?

HIPAA Journal

Nationwide Discretion Announced during the COVID-19 Pandemic During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare providers had to deal with a nationwide public health crisis, the likes of which had never been seen before.

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How Healthcare Can Weaponize Data to Fight Worldwide Disease

HIT Consultant

After more than a year since COVID-19 became a global pandemic, we now understand that part of the challenge in fighting it, and any infectious disease, is solving the underlying data problem. Bad data has led to both poor behavioral and policy-oriented decisions, exacerbating COVID-19 and prolonging its consequences.