National and Global Health Law: A Scholarly Examination of the Most Pressing Health Hazards [PDF]
The health of individuals, families, and communities has deep, intuitive meaning. So much of what we aspire to be as individuals or as members of society relies on health.
Gostin, Lawrence O.
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Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health: Current debates [PDF]
Johanna Gibson’ s “Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health: Current Debates” is an ambitious attempt to bridge the gap between IPR (largely patents) and the ethical, moral and philosophical issues which should influence global access to innovations in
Kowalski, Stanley P.
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ABSTRACT Objective In multiple sclerosis, the optimal time for deploying a therapeutic intervention is before the central nervous system is damaged; given the success of trials treating the earliest stage of MS, the radiologically isolated syndrome, developing primary prevention strategies is an important next challenge.
Amy W. Laitinen +7 more
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The Influence of the Andean Intellectual Property Regime on Access to Medicines in Latin America [PDF]
This chapter is a contribution to Balancing Wealth and Health: Global Administrative Law and the Battle over Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Latin America, Rochelle Dreyfuss & César Rodríguez-Garavito, eds.
Alter, Karen J., Helfer, Laurence R.
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Legal capacities required for prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases [PDF]
Law lies at the centre of successful national strategies for prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases. By law we mean international agreements, national and subnational legislation, regulations and other executive instruments, and decisions of ...
Gostin, Lawrence O. +4 more
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Objective This study assessed sarilumab in treating patients with polyarticular‐course juvenile idiopathic arthritis (pcJIA). Methods This phase 2b, open‐label study (NCT02776735) consisted of three sequential parts (each with a core‐treatment and extension‐phase). During part 1, three doses were assessed in two weight groups (Group A/B: ≥30–60 kg/≥10–<
Fabrizio De Benedetti +19 more
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“Big” Food, Tobacco, and Alcohol: Reducing Industry Influence on Noncommunicable Disease Prevention Laws and Policies; Comment on “Addressing NCDs: Challenges From Industry Market Promotion and Interferences” [PDF]
The food, tobacco and alcohol industries have penetrated markets in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with a significant impact on these countries’ burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).
Belinda Reeve, Lawrence O. Gostin
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Global health law has become an established field of education, practice and research, with its importance as each of these being beyond doubt. At the same time, however, its definition remains elusive and subject to peculiar contest. Discourses on what it is, or is about, result in the advancing of challenging contrasts, paradoxes, contradictions and ...
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The Potential Impact of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) on public health [PDF]
This article aims to examine the potential health effects of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment partnership (TTIP). Our review indicates that, although proponents of the TTIP claim that the treaty will produce benefits to health-enhancing ...
De Vogli, Roberto, Renzetti, Noemi
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Meeting Basic Survival Needs of the World\u27s Least Healthy People: Toward a Framework Convention on Global Health [PDF]
This article searches for solutions to the most perplexing problems in global health - problems so important that they affect the fate of millions of people, with economic, political, and security ramifications for the world\u27s population.
Gostin, Lawrence O.
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