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    Venture capital flowing into high tech health care is continuing to fall after a pandemic surge.New data from investment firm Rock Health shows that digital health firms secured $6.1 billion in funding in the first half of 2023, on pace to settle at or below the pre-Covid level of 2019, when firms got $8.1 billion.“While the ‘writing on the wall’ has been clear for the past several quarters, many…

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    UNAIDS argues that criminalization undermines efforts to prevent new infections and end AIDS as a public health threat.

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    The CDC’s fledgling Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics hopes to build on disease-monitoring systems pioneered during the Covid-19 pandemic.It’s ramping up with the hire last month of Eric Rescorla as chief technologist.Rescorla’s tech resume includes serving as chief technology officer at Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox web browser, and leading a review of California voting machines…

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    The CDC’s fledgling Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics hopes to build on disease-monitoring systems pioneered during the Covid-19 pandemic.It’s ramping up with the hire last month of Eric Rescorla as chief technologist.Rescorla’s tech resume includes serving as chief technology officer at Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox web browser, and leading a review of California voting machines…

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