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

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However, the book not only highlights problems but also offers several well-thought-out and actionable paths to reform. The book explains that despite these events, DEG adulteration continues due to regulatory failures. The book contains eleven chapters that provide a complete picture of the drug regulatory landscape in India.

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Outlive by Peter Attia: A Book Review

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By Bobby Stroup If you want to read a book about how to guarantee a 100-year lifespan, Peter Atta’s Outlive is going to disappoint you. the four horsemen diseases, and how you might increase your healthspan, then you should get a copy of the book today. So how does Attia’s book fall short? In summary, Medicine 2.0

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Public Health Law’s Future Begins in the Classroom

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By Taleed El-Sabawi The use of emergency public health powers by state and local governments during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic led to intense public criticism followed by legislative attempts (include some successes) to strip state executives of this authority. health care and public health are not the same.

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‘We Want Them Infected’: An Excerpt from Jonathan Howard’s New Book on the COVID-19 Pandemic

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This excerpt from the new book titled “ We Want Them Infected ” is printed with permission from Jonathan Howard, MD and Redhawk Publications. link] The post ‘We Want Them Infected’: An Excerpt from Jonathan Howard’s New Book on the COVID-19 Pandemic appeared first on Bill of Health.

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Blue Booking Long COVID: Accounting for Long-Term COVID-19 Complications in Social Security Disability Benefits Evaluations

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Here I suggest a potential solution in amending the Social Security Administration’s Blue Book to include Long COVID in the evaluation of disability benefits. Essentially, the Blue Book is a list of medical conditions and disability criteria that the SSA checks when deciding whether someone should receive disability benefits.

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Transdisciplinary Integration: The Only Way Forward for Public Health

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As we look toward National Public Health Week amid two long years of a pandemic, reflection for us at the Center for Public Health Law Research has focused on how we move forward in a mostly broken public health system. By Scott Burris. These competencies convey two big ideas about law.

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Reclaiming Salus Populi

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Introduction: The Threat to Public Health As we reach the COVID-19 pandemic’s third anniversary, the warning signs for the future of public health law are everywhere. Along the way, courts have displayed an alarming disinterest in science or the impact of their decisions on the public’s health.