Professors want to tweak, not overhaul, patent law
, the landmark law that gave universities...“Don’t fear long haul flights!” Vascular surgeon tells travelrs
Dr. John Scurr, a vascular surgeon at London's Middlesex Hospital, advices passengers, who fly long haul flights, that there is nothing to fear. The death of a woman on board an airliner, while she was flying a long distance flight, has sparked off this sudden debate that long flights can be fatal to many people. Dr. Scurr says this fear is unfounded and that people are just ove...U.S. Child Health System Needs Total Overhaul
When it comes to health care for our kids, we live in a hardscrabble world that is only going to get tougher. That is the underlying message from three UCLA professors// who are calling for a complete overhaul of the U.S child health care system, which they describe as a “patchwork of disconnected programs, policies and funding” that lacks “clear accountability or performance goals.”...Health Insurance Needs Overhauling: Experts
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New medicines should be granted a provisional safety rating until their safety and effectiveness have been proven amongst the wider //population, experts have said in the latest Medical Journal of Australia. Recent experience with Vioxx and some other prescription medicines, which were withdrawn on safety grounds after marketing, has shown that reliance on pre-marketing trials and vol...U.S. Child Health System Needs Total Overhaul
When it comes to health care for our kids, we live in a hardscrabble world that is only going to get tougher. That is the underlying message// from three University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) professors who are calling for a complete overhaul of the U.S child health care system. In their report, which appears in the current issue of the journal Health Affairs, Dr. Neal Halfon,...