An English summary of the Colombia compulsory licensing decision for dolutegravir, by Arianna Schouten

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Outsourcing to the private sector cannot continue to be the only solution to every health system challenge.

How quarterbacks call plays in a huddle.

maybe it was a bad idea for Obama folks to insist that a president should be allowed to conduct extrajudicial assassinations of Americans

.Bernie Sanders Urges Global Pharmaceutical Industry Leaders: Prioritize Public Health Over Private Profits as Pandemic Accord Negotiations Enter Final Phase World Health Organization (WHO) #pandemictreaty sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/upl…

Very concerning. Could be other animals around farms dying also. Not sure anyone is tracking.

Genomic sequences of virus from these dead cats & cows on same farm would be enlightening.

RFKjr efforts to demonize the World Health Organization (WHO) are truly appalling.

Woman gets xeno-kidney with only one gene knockout (alpha-gal) and is doing well so far.

Is one gene edit enough? The patent covering alpha-gal knockout is expired, which may partly explain why others are intent on multiple genetic alterations.

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🚨“There is no rational reason why vaccine manufacturers should be allowed to keep lifesaving manufacturing information secret in the face of an international public health emergency.”

Bernie Sanders urges equity over profit in the #PandemicAccord

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It’s clear that “citizen science” is playing an important role in filling knowledge gaps. It would be great to see someone sequencing the samples from wastewater and watersheds that might be showing peaks of flu A in March/April.
- ⁦STAT⁩ statnews.com/2024/04/25/h5n…

It's been 18 months since President Biden called on the DEA to review the classification of marijuana, which is currently in the same category as heroin & a more dangerous category than fentanyl.

Lawmakers & I are calling on the DEA to act now & legalize marijuana.huffpost.com/entry/lawmaker…

Early tests of H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest U.S. bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread
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The Supreme Court immunity arguments, live. youtube.com/watch?v=XrwxBe…

SCOTUS Justice Sonia Sotomayor: “If the president ... orders someone to assassinate [a rival], is that within his official acts for which he can get immunity?”

Trump attorney D. John Sauer: “It would depend on the hypothetical, but we can see that could well be an official act.”

New: Sanders Demands Pricing, Sales Data For Novo Nordisk’s Lucrative GLP-1 Drugs insidehealthpolicy.com/inside-drug-pr…

Limits on foreign ownership have been a part of federal communications policy for more than a century. Rupert Murdoch even had to become an American to avoid FCC rules banning foreign owners of tv networks based on the twin fears of espionage & propaganda.
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Some examples of unbelievably high prices of medical products - and more are coming… this is not sustainable and we need to be better prepared to tackle these - from the keynote at the #PPRIconference #accesstomedicines

Historico: Colombia emite primera licencia no voluntaria para uso gubernamental, para expandir acceso a medicamento HIV - si se puede! MinSalud Colombia 🇨🇴 Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio 🇨🇴

Colômbia emite histórica/primeira licença compulsória para permitir genéricos do Dolutegravir mais acessíveis no país e expandir acesso para pessoas vivendo com HIV/AIDS. Felicidades para o governo colombiana por essa liderança e ato histórico! MinSalud Colombia 🇨🇴 Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio 🇨🇴

Ozempic costs $969/month in the US. Wegovy costs $1349/month.
That's 6-10x the price in other wealthy nations. It's estimated they cost $5/month to make.
No matter how you cut it, we are being ripped off. thehill.com/homenews/senat…