Category: health care
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Can Digital Innovation Transform Health Care? Part I
At a recent MIT/Sloan Management School conference on Health Systems Innovation, MIT-Sloan Professor Retzef Levi laid out problems besetting a troubled US health care system. He emphasizing the need to “sow seeds now” for a “visionary, futuristic system” to reduce future illness–and health care costs. The conference featured experts from health, science, business and industrial…
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Convergence Science Transforming Biomedicine, MIT Report says
“Convergence science has advanced across many fronts, from nanotechnology to regenerative tissue,” says Nobel Laureate Phil Sharp of MIT. “But the funding allocated for convergence research in biomedical science is small and needs to be expanded. In fact, there is no federal agency with the responsibility to fund convergence in biomedical research.”
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Companies Receive $1.3 M in MA-Israeli Collaboration Grants
Four Boston area Israeli collaborations receive $1.3 in funding for innovative medical and energy projects under new MA/Israel partnership.
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AC Immune/Genentech to Partner on R&D for Alzheimer’s Antibody; $418M Agree’t
AC Immune has entered into a second exclusive worldwide license agreement and research collaboration with Genentech,of the Roche Group, for the research, development and commercialization of AC Immune’s anti-Tau antibodies for the potential treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. The agreement is valued at $400M.
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Journalists Tell Emerson College Students About Health Communications Careers
Writer-content strategist Anita Harris describes a recent panel discussion in which she, Stephen Smith of the Boston Globe and Lara Salahi of ABC News spoke to Emerson College students about careers in health communications.
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Lab tests for a dime at the convenience store?
I asked when and how these groundbreaking technologies will affect the costs and structure of US healthcare–and whether those who make and market our costly technologies will try to keep these new testing devices from our marketplace.