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Accounting Examining Board 1 ($25/day 2) Joseph Braunger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . expires 7/1/17 Gerald Denor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7/1/17 Glenn Michaelsen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7/1/17 Christine Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7/1/18 Kathleen LaBrake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7/1/18 John Scheid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7/...

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GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, AND LAW Expedited Partner Therapy for Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Assessing the Legal Environment

An emerging alternative to traditional partner management for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) is expedited partner therapy (EPT), which involves the delivery of medications or prescriptions to STD patients for their partners without the clinical assessment of the partners. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently recommended EPT nationally in limited circumstances; however, ...

The Politics of Patent Law: Why Patent Reform Failed in 2015 and Prospects for 2016

W hile patent reform appears to be an issue of perennial interest to lawmakers, the floors of Congress are littered with failed attempts to bring about large-scale, systemic change. To be sure, small and important changes to the patent code have been successfully enacted over the years. But prior to passage of the America Invents Act (AIA) in 2011, the last major patent reform occurred in 1952....

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