By Joshua Mansour, M.D. The head of the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Norman “Ned” Sharpless, will be temporarily appointed as acting commissioner of the Food and Drug administration amid the news of Dr. Scott Gottlieb stepping down for personal reasons. Dr. Sharpless oversees billions in grants for research and federal funding at his current position. Time will tell if […]
By Joshua Mansour, M.D. From the beginning of medical school, one of the first things “instructional videos” that we had to watch during orientation was about “social media” and what “not to do”. There began this stigma and it was frowned upon to use social media if you were a healthcare provider. There are the […]
By Nanette Moss, S.M., C.I.H., Senior Scientist and Project Executive with Environmental Health & Engineering, Inc. What is business continuity planning and why it is important? Emergencies may be infrequent…
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This is a guest post from Pepper Hamilton Partners John P. Isacson and N. Nicole Stakleff. John can be contacted at [email protected] and Nicole can be contacted at [email protected] The Federal Circuit recently…
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Former Congressman Henry Waxman was recently interviewed for the Clause 8 podcast about how he worked together with Sen. Orrin Hatch to pass the Hatch-Waxman Act and its aftermath. Congressman…
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This is a guest post by Steven Lee, Senior Scientist in the Life Sciences Group at Environmental Health & Engineering (EH&E) Once you have the idea and the funding for a biotech start-up, you may think the biggest challenges are behind you. However, without proper planning and considerations, the environment you choose for your laboratory facility […]
This paper was originally published by Bhaven N. Sampat and Kenneth C. Shadlen in PLoS ONE 13(4): e0194714 under a Creative Commons license. Abstract India, like many developing countries, only recently…
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This paper was originally published by Rishi J Desai, Ameet Sarpatwari, Sara Dejene, Nazleen F Khan, Joyce Lii, James R Rogers, Sarah K Dutcher, Saeid Raofi, Justin Bohn, John Connolly, Michael A Fischer, Aaron S Kesselheim, and Joshua J Gagne in BMJ 2…
This paper was originally published by Glenn P. Carroll, Sanjay Srivastava, Adam S. Volini, Marta M. Piñeiro-Núñez, and TatianaVetman in Drug Discovery Today Volume 22, Issue 5, May 2017, Pages 776-785 under…
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This article was originally published by Andrew M Hill, Melissa J Barber, and Dzintars Gotham in BMJ Global Health Jan 2018, 3 (1) e000571 under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. Abstract Introduction There are persi…