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Book Review: ‘The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India’

Bill of Health

Most recently, in 2020, 11 children in India died of DEG poisoning. In fact, before publishing the book, the authors petitioned the government, highlighting glaring regulatory issues, but the government turned a blind eye. India has had at least five major cases of DEG poisoning in the past.

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The International Weaponization of Health Data

Bill of Health

In 2019, China announced a new law prohibiting Chinese organizations from sharing genetic data with foreign groups without government approval. Government officials recently have expressed concern about the open-access sharing of U.K. Other countries have taken notice. citizens’ health data with China.

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Q&A with PFC Director of Global Health and Rights Project, Alicia Ely Yamin

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I’ve been privileged to be able to work not only with non-governmental and grass-roots organizations but also with national governments and courts, as well as with UN bodies. I am so grateful to PFC and the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) for supporting new stream of interdisciplinary work on evolving governance in global health.

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Learning from the ‘COVID War’

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Their COVID War The “ COVID Crisis Group ” is an establishment group of businesspeople and government officials plus some subject matter experts. Many, like their director, Philip Zelikow, have held high government positions and been lawyers, CEOs, or higher-managers for business.

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The Remarkable Rise of Pharma’s Reputation in the Pandemic

Health Populi

The reputation of the pharmaceutical industry gained a “whopping” 30 points between January 2020 and February 2021, based on the latest Harris Poll in their research into industries’ reputations. This became to be expected by more patients in 2020, our Year of COVID as Dr. Osterholm has called it.

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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health

Health Populi

Most industries lost citizens’ trust between 2020 and 2021, most notably, Technology, dropping the greatest margin at 9 points. Healthcare experienced a bounce in the one year 2020-21, rising from 56 points of trust among U.S. By mid-2020, Edelman detected, “a decline in willingness to share personal data to fight the pandemic.

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A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 4: Winter of Death (December 2021 – Present)

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As a MarketWatch headline put it , “Dow, S&P 500 book best day in two weeks after Biden vows no return to March 2020-style lockdowns as Omicron rages.”. government, under a right-wing prime minister, has rejected the five-day isolation period embraced by a U.S. The markets approved of this last message. Even the U.K.