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Tapping the potential applications of mHealth

The Health Policy Exchange

In the developing world, "mHealth projects are launching at an exponential rate," declared a recent issue of Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine. Should state and local governments provide direct grants or tax relief to promising startups? However, the vast majority of health apps used by consumers will not require FDA approval.

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Maria Ansari, MD, FACC, named to Modern Healthcare’s list of 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives

Permanente Medicine

The complete list of honorees and their profiles are available at 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives – 2025 | Modern Healthcare and in the June 9 issue of Modern Healthcare magazine. A digital subscription is required to view the online profiles. To learn more about Permanente Medicine, visit permanente.org.

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

And so now for March, 2024, the government still has said they’re planning to expand it for mental illness conditions. You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage).

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Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

GeriPal

Like in pandemic, I wrote a few articles early on and then when I started working for the city and state, I just stopped and partly was the horrible, horrible, horrible things we were seeing and that the government was doing to older people. And part of it was just not having time because I was doing my UCSF job and that job.

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KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: RFK Jr. Upends Vaccine Policy, After Promising He Wouldn’t

Physician's Weekly

.” This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, and Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico Magazine. Panelists Anna Edney Bloomberg News @annaedney @annaedney.bsky.social Read Anna’s stories.

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What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer

Physician's Weekly

A Failed Compensation Program Vaccine advocates and skeptics agree that the government program established to compensate people injured by vaccines or other public health measures during emergencies — the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program — has miserably failed those with covid vaccine-related injuries.