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Public Health Product Hops

Bill of Health

Regulatory and patent exclusivity periods govern the timing of generic entry, and because market share and revenue is often quickly lost upon market entry of generic drugs, extending market exclusivity for any duration can be extremely profitable. Glenn Cohen’s Health Law Policy, Bioethics, and Biotechnology Workshop at HLS.

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Regulating Medical Assistance in Dying: A Comparison of the U.S. and Canada

Bill of Health

For instance, the 2017 case A.B The federal government did not challenge this decision and instead amended the law in 2021 to expand access to MAID to individuals whose deaths are not reasonably foreseeable. At the time, the law required a person’s natural death to be “reasonably foreseeable” for a person to be eligible for MAID.

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Beyond Vulnerability: Disability, Epistemic Agency, and Climate Action

Bill of Health

As argued by feminist scholar Sara Ahmed (2017: 237) , “ when a whole world is organised to promote your survival, from health to education, to the walls designed to keep your residence safe, to the paths that ease your travel, you do not have become so inventive to survive. ”

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Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health and Its Devastating Implications for Immigrants’ Rights

Bill of Health

In 2017, a similar fate befell Latice Fisher , a Black mother of three, who was charged with second-degree murder for stillbirth of her fetus. As noted by several scholars, the Dobbs decision will have impacts on laws governing areas other than reproductive rights.

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

To address that challenge, in 2017 PLM secured a $100 million (controlling interest) investment from iCarbonX , a Chinese company that is amassing patient data to discover cures for disease. And they invested in people because the communities they built require a human touch. But the U.S. citizens’ personal data.