Medical countermeasures for pandemic influenza: Ethics and the law

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The main goal of United States is to build a system that ensures stable and economically viable vaccines for pandemic influenza to meet potentially massive public needs. Private markets working alone cannot create stable supplies of life-saving countermeasures or ensure fair allocations but constructive partnerships among nations, government, industry and the community are essential to maximize survival and socioeconomic functioning in an impending crisis.

Care and treatment, Risk factors, Influenza, Medical ethics

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Why rich countries should care about the world's least healthy people

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Politically and economically powerful countries should look after the least healthy people as global health serves national health and secondly because it is ethically the correct thing to do.

Government domestic functions, Industrialized Countries, Evaluation, International aspects, World health, Industrial nations, Federal aid to community health services, Government aid to community health services, Health policy

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The "tobacco wars" - global litigation strategies

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The article discusses current tobacco litigation strategies frequently being used in the U.S. to promote tobacco control, along with the key elements.

Legal issues & crime, TOBACCO PRODUCTS, Tobacco farms, Health aspects, Company legal issue, Investigations, Environmental aspects, Smoking, Tobacco industry, Control, Tobacco habit

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