by Shelley Ross | Apr 3, 2015 | Archives
GOV’T BARRIER TO A CURE? He’s a Nobel laureate, the former president of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Director of the National Cancer Institute for five years. Dr. Harold Varmus left that post last Tuesday, but not before telling the New York...
by Shelley Ross | Mar 21, 2015 | Archives
The music industry isn’t the only place this is true and Pharell Williams and Robin Thicke aren’t the only ones singing the “who-really-created-that” blues. It is long accepted where there is scientific discovery, there is litigation. Such is...
by Shelley Ross | Mar 20, 2015 | Archives
Page one of the NYT today (below): scientists want a moratorium on an effective new genome-editing technology that could eradicate inherited diseases. Our question: do we have to put so many potential cures on hold while we figure out how to manage those who may...
by Shelley Ross | Mar 12, 2015 | Archives
Earlier this year, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) released Innovation for Healthier Americans: Identifying Opportunities for Meaningful Reform to our Nation’s Product Discover and Development The 109-page report is a...
by Shelley Ross | Mar 12, 2015 | Archives
In the 21st century, health care innovation is happening at lightning speed. From the mapping of the human genome to the rise of personalized medicines that are linked to advances in molecular medicine, we have seen constant breakthroughs that are changing the face of...
