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Merchandising healthcare access: adopting e-commerce techniques

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Finding and scheduling a doctor's appointment online should be exactly like buying pantry items for your house on your favorite online retailer's website – efficient, straightforward and meeting your expectations. Please explain what this is and how this works.

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The Future of Public Health Law Lies in the Past — And Lawyers Need to Learn It

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Rather than bifurcating the term “sanitation,” as the lower court did, into either “cleanliness” or the “promotion of cleanliness in public health activities,” a more nuanced and knowledgeable basis of scientific history might have cleared up the impasse and given greater guidance (and powers) for CDC to act during COVID and future epidemics.

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Lessons from Latin America as the U.S. Regresses on Reproductive Rights

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Moreover, a fetus cannot be considered a legal person until it is born, and doctors who are conscientious objectors cannot refuse to perform the procedure if the woman’s life or health is at stake. Finally, the Court ordered the Federal Congress of Mexico to legislate this urgent issue, considering abortion as a public health service.