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Reforming FDA: Focus on safety, let market judge efficacy

...fficacy, the Kefauver-Harris amendment has had the unintended consequence of slowing down drug approvals in the present era. FDA: Tortoise or hare? The article Potentially Incompatible Goals at FDA said the following: Patients want immediate access to breakthrough medicines but also want to believe the dr...

Healthcare of business: Universal coverage plan includes new business taxes

.... A healthy state? There is also a fascinating unintended consequence to this proposal. If Gov. Blagojevich were to implement such an idea, we'd have an interesting scenario in which unhealthy companies would be discouraged from setting up business in Illinois while healthy companies would be encouraged to ...

Zillow changes the real estate pricing game

...r a range of unfriendly purposes. These may be the unintended consequences of what should be an empowering consumer service, and that makes Zillow an interesting company to watch. Zillow was founded by two veterans of Expedia, Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink. The Seattle-based company is funded by Benchmark Capita...

Katrina's destruction likely to speed up electronic healthcare records adoption

...utes dating back to over 25 years ago have had the unintended consequence of hindering some necessary data sharing. "Those state laws that are getting in the way with privacy protection are really superseded by federal legislation in the form HIPAA, but HIPAA requires that we pay attention to these state laws ...

Experts spar over incentives for health-care providers

...nt , said that incentives always have some kind of unintended effects. "What are the risks," he asked, "if we implement pay-for-performance, that the incentives produce poor outcomes?" A simple example is the incentive to treat diabetic patients effectively with both treatments and patient education. It sounds...

Peter Stockhausen: CIO or business consultant?

...lit between bigger and smaller IT operations as an unintended consequence of that law. Sarbanes drove the medium-sized shops to tighten up their processes and broke the career path from smaller more informal IT shops through those medium sized shops to the more structured IT environment of larger organizations....

UW-Madison puts heart and mind into stem cells

...s to continuing the research. We want to avoid the unintended consequences, but theres certainly tremendous potential in the cardiovascular field. Moss was followed by Clive Svendsen , an advisory board member of the Wisconsin Stem Cell Research Program , who discussed the possibilities opened up by the rese...

Technology regulation spurred by a mix of science and politics

...y, researchers should pay much closer attention to unintended health effects. The nanotech report by Britains Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering, by and large, echoed the enthusiasm of those who contend the emerging business will power the next industrial revolution. Hundreds of tons of nanomateria...

The New Green Revolution offers hope to poor farmers and poor consumers

...uly harming the environment. With a careful eye on unintended consequences, the New Green Revolution must continue, informed protests or not....

Life Science: From the arts to the outdoors: Living and Playing in Wisconsin

...ax structure (a single sales formula) to eliminate unintended penalties on companies that choose to expand in Wisconsin. Taxes in Wisconsin arent hidden, either. User fees are low compared to surrounding states. Companies can find the skilled, dedicated employees they need. In addition to the K-12 system, Wi...

The age of human computing?

...ally invisible. But, I continued, addressing the unintended question in the account exec's question, we have to ask whether all this computing technology will make us more - or less - human. Will the ability to communicate via voice or text messaging virtually anytime from anywhere do more to connect or disen...

Transforming Information to Knowledge

...tory, weve treated information and knowledge as an unintended consequence of technology. Now, as the economy mov...e to treat the use of information and knowledge as unintended system consequences. Information managers must shift attention from volume and availability to conte...

Fast Track: FDA User Fees: Do Faster Review Times Justify the Financial Burden?

...train on smaller businesses is significant, and an unintended consequence of user fees may be to weaken innovative start-up companies. Moreover, user fees have created a two-tiered review system, where FDA reviews fee-based applications preferentially. Although not every application requires a user fee (and sma...

The Learning Game - Researchers Study Video Gaming Principles that Apply to Education

...onsequences someplace else. There are all sorts of unintended consequences. Most of the modern workplaces are very complex systems in which you have to interact with a lot of people and a lot of other things going on. In modern workplaces the workers understand the whole work place is a system. How does what I ...