onPhilanthropy – Healthcare Philanthropy and the Future: Engine or Caboose?
Provocative questions.
These are the pivotal questions for the future of America’s health care. They, combined with the innovation upon which they are premised, create the engine pulling American health care forward.
Is American philanthropy part of that debate? Is it sponsoring the services and scientific research that [...]
Nano Weapons Join the Fight Against Cancer
In experiments, nanoshells are injected into an animal’s bloodstream, where “targeting” agents applied to them seek out and attach to the surface receptors of cancerous cells. Illumination with infrared light “raises the cells’ temperature to 55 degrees Celsius” and burns away the tumor, she (scientist) says.
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Library without books
I am sure most of you have heard of ebooks the electronic equal of what we commonly refer to as hard-back books. Or what people in the e-book community refer to as dead-tree books. =) The real question this raises are people going to pay for a $400 e-book reader, when they can [...]
No Chip in Arm, No Shot From the Gun
This is a great article about a new technology that could all effect us very soon. Bio-implants or smartchips that sit under a person’s skin and either monitor their actions or health or in this case serve as the “key” for a very intresting lock. Read [...]
A Fantasy That’s Never Final
Online Communites are growing more and more. Check this article out to see exactly how videogame worlds sink up. Does real life imitate the video game world? This is the first time ever that PC gamers can now play online with Console gamers. How will the change affect the diverse [...]
The first item—“A Glimpse at the Future of DNA: M.D.’s Inside the Body”(and thanks to Eric Smith for the tip)—is about using DNA sections to encode a sequence of events that might identify a specific molecular maker for a cancer and then trigger a therapeutic response. That’s interesting, but if you couple it with the [...]
Nonprofits and advocacy groups have joined forces to oppose proposed Federal Election Commission rules they say would limit nonprofit advocacy.
The rules would affect nonprofit independent political committees, known as 527s, but the FEC is considering whether to include 501(c)3 and 501(c)4 nonprofits, says Independent Sector, a national coalition of nonprofits.
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Article in WSJ about the Indian (Asia) Apollo Hospital chain and how it is supplying care not only to Indians but to foreigners who are going there for lower cost hospital care. Since you need a subscription to access the article, I’ll quote liberally.
Greeting from Seattle. About the emergence of bioinformatics and information infrastructure companies.
Uh-oh! On an airplane flight today I had the chance to read a recently published article entitled “The Changing Structure of the Pharmaceutical Industry” by Lain Cockburn. It’s got a different perspective on the recent changes that have happened in the pharmaceutical vs biotech industry in the past couple of decades. It also has some [...]
