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Yesterday, the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) published an RFI (Request For Information) soliciting ideas on how to accelerate U.S. commercialization of federally funded Academic research...



... Federally-funded research has played a major role in the development of multiple recent… Continue

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As reported in US News and World Report ...



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This post is part of Harvard Business Review's Health Care Innovations Insight Center...



...Here are excerpts from the 10 innovations that Harvard Business Review thinks will have a big impact ...



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1. Checklists Health care is catching on to something pilots have known for…

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I went to my Orange County tooth extraction dentist yesterday. In my seven years as his patient, I thought I already know everything there is to know about teeth. Much to my

surprise, there are still things I don’t know about them.

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Rural Haiti Struggles to Absorb Displaced

By DEBORAH SONTAG

FOND-DES-BLANCS, Haiti — Before the earthquake… Continue

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Two of the most accomplished authors in Triple Helix ... Academic, Industry, Government ... technology transfer strategy are Eric Campbell, PhD, Director of Research, Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, and Joshua Powers, Ph.D, Chair, Department of… Continue

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Attached are pdf versions of a few recent talks from the FDA workshop on PGx. Also I recommend that those people that don't have a basic understanding of PGx go to the web site from the American College of Clinical Pharmacology ("The Future of Medicine: Pharmacogenomics - http://user.accp1.org/index_new.html).

Thanks - Gerry…

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In Haiti’s Hour of Need, Texting “4636” Became a Lifeline

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Clinton Bush Haiti Fund Appoints Board of Directors and CEO



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As reported by MIT Tech Review ... An interview with P4 (Predictive, Personalized, Preventative, Participatory) pioneer, Dr Leroy Hood of the Institute for Systems Biology on the future of personalized medicine ...

Personalized medicine: Leroy Hood, founder of the Institute for Systems Biology, in Seattle, has a vision of the future of medicine that he calls the “P4” approach. Credit: Institute for Systems… Continue

Harrisburg Health Information Exchange holding critical meetings



The Harrisburg Health Information Exchange will host two meetings this month to advance Electronic Medical Records, or EMR, technology between physician practices and health care providers.



The meetings will be at 3 p.m. March 17 and at 8:30 am March 27, both at the Wildwood Conference Center at Harrisburg Area Community College.



We want to ensure every physician practice and health care provider… Continue