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Do No Harm: A Call for Decarceration in Hospitals

Bill of Health

Though strict protocol typically governs everything in hospitals, for prisoners, those rules seem to go out the window, without deliberation. This heightens the cruelty of incarceration. For example, typically, before a patient is placed in restraints, there has to be a face-to-face evaluation on initiation and frequent reassessment.

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The 2021 Shkreli Awards: Lown Institute Counts Down the Top 10 Healthcare Industry Abuses in the Coronavirus Pandemic

Health Populi

. #2: Moderna, funded with nearly $1 billion in taxpayer dollars to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, sets the highest prevailing market price for the product. The controversy here is that this was the highest price set although the company received 100% of the development costs for the vaccine covered by the U.S.