This group aims to work on innovations in human health treatments, technologies and policy prescriptions. (We aim to avoid dogmatic thinking and ideological entrenchement, but want vibrant debate and practical solutions.)
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Tami replied to the forum topic How to Build a Better Insurance Company in the group Healthcare Innovations: Tech & Policy 6 months, 1 week ago
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Joseph Robertson replied to the forum topic Malaria: a Crisis of Infrastructure in the group Healthcare Innovations: Tech & Policy 7 months ago
From The New York Times:
A vaccine to protect children against malaria has been shown moderately effective in a large clinical trial — an achievement that could save millions of lives. The vaccine, known as […]
Joseph Robertson started the forum topic Tobacco Could Kill 1 Billion People this Century: How to Stop It in the group Healthcare Innovations: Tech & Policy: 10 months, 2 weeks ago
The investigative news magazine Vanguard reports from Indonesia on the tobacco industry’s massive, coordinated effort to get as many young people across the developing world, hooked on deadly cigarettes, in order to profit from their addiction. New York mayor Michael Bloomberg says 1 billion people will be killed by smoking this century, unless…[Read more]
Joseph Robertson posted on the forum topic Malaria: a Crisis of Infrastructure in the group Healthcare Innovations: Tech & Policy: 1 year, 11 months ago
From a UNICEF report on mosquito netting to fight malaria infection : Long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) have been developed in response to the low re-treatment rates of conventional insecticide-treated nets, especially in Africa. A long-lasting net is a ready-to-use pre-treated mosquito net, which requires no further treatment during its…[Read more]
Evelyn Winston Perez posted on the forum topic Malaria: a Crisis of Infrastructure in the group Healthcare Innovations: Tech & Policy: 1 year, 11 months ago
The first solution that has to be implemented anywhere there is a high incidence of malarial infection is advanced anti-mosquito netting. There are now nets infused with chemical mosquito-cide that is not harmful to human health and that has an effective life long enough to stave off infection over time, if used daily. Simple solutions [...]
admin posted on the forum topic Copper is Antimicrobial in the group Healthcare Innovations: Tech & Policy: 1 year, 11 months ago
Copper-infused textiles can be produced now , without alteration of industrial processes. Such production could permit the use of copper across a wide array of medical-industry applications involving textiles, including furniture and even hospital gowns, scrubs and other articles in consistent close contact with patients and potential microbial…[Read more]
admin started the forum topic Copper is Antimicrobial in the group Healthcare Innovations: Tech & Policy: 1 year, 11 months ago
The copper industry is working together to answer one very important question: Can copper and copper alloys (brass and bronze) help curb the spread of bacteria that cause hospital infection? Results of laboratory testing and clinical trials indicate that they can. Scientists from around the world shared their work at the first world congress, ‘Copper [...]
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J.E. Robertson started the forum topic Malaria: a Crisis of Infrastructure in the group Healthcare Innovations: Tech & Policy: 1 year, 11 months ago
Malaria Kills Millions Every Year in Africa. It is responsible for anywhere from 1 to 3 million deaths per year, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa. Efforts to eradicate the disease are mounting: in the year 2000, just 3% of children under 5, in sub-Saharan Africa, slept with mosquito nets; by 2008, that figure had risen [...]
J.E. Robertson started the forum topic Are gene patents hijacking your biology? in the group Healthcare Innovations: Tech & Policy: 2 years ago
Intellectual property laws designed to help protect the ability of researchers to retain compensation for major innovations have led to a uniquely problematic “innovation” in the laws themselves, where specific genes, or the informational access to them, are patented, barring individuals or their physicians from dealing directly with those genes…[Read more]
Joseph Robertson started the forum topic How to Build a Better Insurance Company in the group Healthcare Innovations: Tech & Policy: 2 years ago
A central truth in the arduous national debate over health insurance reform legislation, throughout 2009 and up to passage in March 2010, has been the fact that major insurers are unable to provide coverage for the treatment needed by their patients. Either their business model is fundamentally flawed or there is a severe deficit of [...]