Plans to expand African vaccine production face steep hurdles
In March 2022, when the pandemic was still raging, the messenger RNA (mRNA) company Moderna announced it would build a $500 million plant in Kenya to manufacture half a billion doses of its COVID-19 vaccine annually. “
This is major
,” Kenyan President William Ruto said at the time. The plant would help reduce Africa’s dependence on vaccines produced elsewhere, Ruto said—a situation that had turned disastrous during the pandemic—and bring economic benefits as well.
But Moderna may never break ground on the Kenya factory. On 11 April, the company said it had
“paused its efforts”
becau...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - April 16, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
From Charity to Commerce: Bondholders, Women's Auxiliaries, and Community Health Care in Arizona
This article contrasts women's auxiliaries as volunteers and fundraisers at a voluntary sanatorium and a community hospital in metropolitan Phoenix. Their experience highlights the rising importance of private investors in nonprofit health care. Nonprofit community hospitals depended on volunteer labor from women's auxiliaries to keep their doors open in the mid-twentieth-century United States. However, their position became subordinate to financial demands from bondholders-these (and other) financial influences eroded the social capital created by charitable labor. At Maryvale Hospital, one of the "eight-percenter" mortga...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Anthony Pratcher Source Type: research
From Charity to Commerce: Bondholders, Women's Auxiliaries, and Community Health Care in Arizona
This article contrasts women's auxiliaries as volunteers and fundraisers at a voluntary sanatorium and a community hospital in metropolitan Phoenix. Their experience highlights the rising importance of private investors in nonprofit health care. Nonprofit community hospitals depended on volunteer labor from women's auxiliaries to keep their doors open in the mid-twentieth-century United States. However, their position became subordinate to financial demands from bondholders-these (and other) financial influences eroded the social capital created by charitable labor. At Maryvale Hospital, one of the "eight-percenter" mortga...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Anthony Pratcher Source Type: research
From Charity to Commerce: Bondholders, Women's Auxiliaries, and Community Health Care in Arizona
This article contrasts women's auxiliaries as volunteers and fundraisers at a voluntary sanatorium and a community hospital in metropolitan Phoenix. Their experience highlights the rising importance of private investors in nonprofit health care. Nonprofit community hospitals depended on volunteer labor from women's auxiliaries to keep their doors open in the mid-twentieth-century United States. However, their position became subordinate to financial demands from bondholders-these (and other) financial influences eroded the social capital created by charitable labor. At Maryvale Hospital, one of the "eight-percenter" mortga...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Anthony Pratcher Source Type: research
From Charity to Commerce: Bondholders, Women's Auxiliaries, and Community Health Care in Arizona
This article contrasts women's auxiliaries as volunteers and fundraisers at a voluntary sanatorium and a community hospital in metropolitan Phoenix. Their experience highlights the rising importance of private investors in nonprofit health care. Nonprofit community hospitals depended on volunteer labor from women's auxiliaries to keep their doors open in the mid-twentieth-century United States. However, their position became subordinate to financial demands from bondholders-these (and other) financial influences eroded the social capital created by charitable labor. At Maryvale Hospital, one of the "eight-percenter" mortga...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Anthony Pratcher Source Type: research
From Charity to Commerce: Bondholders, Women's Auxiliaries, and Community Health Care in Arizona
This article contrasts women's auxiliaries as volunteers and fundraisers at a voluntary sanatorium and a community hospital in metropolitan Phoenix. Their experience highlights the rising importance of private investors in nonprofit health care. Nonprofit community hospitals depended on volunteer labor from women's auxiliaries to keep their doors open in the mid-twentieth-century United States. However, their position became subordinate to financial demands from bondholders-these (and other) financial influences eroded the social capital created by charitable labor. At Maryvale Hospital, one of the "eight-percenter" mortga...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Anthony Pratcher Source Type: research
From Charity to Commerce: Bondholders, Women's Auxiliaries, and Community Health Care in Arizona
This article contrasts women's auxiliaries as volunteers and fundraisers at a voluntary sanatorium and a community hospital in metropolitan Phoenix. Their experience highlights the rising importance of private investors in nonprofit health care. Nonprofit community hospitals depended on volunteer labor from women's auxiliaries to keep their doors open in the mid-twentieth-century United States. However, their position became subordinate to financial demands from bondholders-these (and other) financial influences eroded the social capital created by charitable labor. At Maryvale Hospital, one of the "eight-percenter" mortga...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Anthony Pratcher Source Type: research
From Charity to Commerce: Bondholders, Women's Auxiliaries, and Community Health Care in Arizona
This article contrasts women's auxiliaries as volunteers and fundraisers at a voluntary sanatorium and a community hospital in metropolitan Phoenix. Their experience highlights the rising importance of private investors in nonprofit health care. Nonprofit community hospitals depended on volunteer labor from women's auxiliaries to keep their doors open in the mid-twentieth-century United States. However, their position became subordinate to financial demands from bondholders-these (and other) financial influences eroded the social capital created by charitable labor. At Maryvale Hospital, one of the "eight-percenter" mortga...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Anthony Pratcher Source Type: research
From Charity to Commerce: Bondholders, Women's Auxiliaries, and Community Health Care in Arizona
This article contrasts women's auxiliaries as volunteers and fundraisers at a voluntary sanatorium and a community hospital in metropolitan Phoenix. Their experience highlights the rising importance of private investors in nonprofit health care. Nonprofit community hospitals depended on volunteer labor from women's auxiliaries to keep their doors open in the mid-twentieth-century United States. However, their position became subordinate to financial demands from bondholders-these (and other) financial influences eroded the social capital created by charitable labor. At Maryvale Hospital, one of the "eight-percenter" mortga...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Anthony Pratcher Source Type: research
From Charity to Commerce: Bondholders, Women's Auxiliaries, and Community Health Care in Arizona
This article contrasts women's auxiliaries as volunteers and fundraisers at a voluntary sanatorium and a community hospital in metropolitan Phoenix. Their experience highlights the rising importance of private investors in nonprofit health care. Nonprofit community hospitals depended on volunteer labor from women's auxiliaries to keep their doors open in the mid-twentieth-century United States. However, their position became subordinate to financial demands from bondholders-these (and other) financial influences eroded the social capital created by charitable labor. At Maryvale Hospital, one of the "eight-percenter" mortga...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Anthony Pratcher Source Type: research
Organizational Engagement: One State's Experience With Invigorating Affiliate Membership and Building a Sustainable Fundraising Model
This article details the key components of this journey, which has culminated in a successful annual conference with over $118,000 in net revenue to help meet affiliate goals, including pursuing midwifery modernization legislation for Pennsylvania and an increase in our affiliate membership by almost 100 individuals. The annual conference,Midwifery Forward, which completed its fifth year in 2023, has also given our community of midwives a yearly reason to gather and reconnect, celebrate accomplishments, welcome new graduates, and make plans for the year ahead. The goal of this article is to share the specifics of our strat...
Source: Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health - March 12, 2024 Category: Midwifery Authors: Lauren Narbey,
Rebecca Ingalls,
Alice Cline,
Emily C. McGahey,
Amanda Shafton,
Kim Amsley ‐Camp Tags: Innovations from the Field Source Type: research
For Exposed and Deserted Young Children: Research at the London Foundling Hospital
Neonatology. 2024 Mar 1:1-8. doi: 10.1159/000536421. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Little is known about research in Foundling Hospitals during the 18th century.SUMMARY: The London "Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children" opened in 1741, after fundraising by the former shipmaster Thomas Coram and a Charter by King George II. From 1741 to 1756, fewer than 100 infants a year were admitted by lot. With onset of the Seven Years' War in 1756, the House of Commons resolved and financed the admission of all deserted babies. The number of admitted babies rose to 4,000 per year...
Source: Neonatology - March 3, 2024 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Michael Obladen Source Type: research
Increasing Sanfilippo Syndrome Awareness through Children's Literature and Music
Endocr Metab Immune Disord Drug Targets. 2023 Dec 18. doi: 10.2174/0118715303272345231211094632. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThere is an ongoing effort to increase rare disease awareness amongst healthcare providers. This front is important and can help to address several challenges faced by rare disease patients, such as lengthy diagnosis times, difficulty in finding adequate providers of medical services and experts, and adequate treatment if one exists. On another front, there is the need for awareness among citizens and their support in the advocacy for public policies towards rare disease patients and families. Awar...
Source: Endocrine, Metabolic and Immune Disorders Drug Targets - December 19, 2023 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Raquel Marques Rodrigo Carlson Guilhain Higonnet Source Type: research
Increasing Sanfilippo Syndrome Awareness through Children's Literature and Music
Endocr Metab Immune Disord Drug Targets. 2023 Dec 18. doi: 10.2174/0118715303272345231211094632. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThere is an ongoing effort to increase rare disease awareness amongst healthcare providers. This front is important and can help to address several challenges faced by rare disease patients, such as lengthy diagnosis times, difficulty in finding adequate providers of medical services and experts, and adequate treatment if one exists. On another front, there is the need for awareness among citizens and their support in the advocacy for public policies towards rare disease patients and families. Awar...
Source: Endocrine, Metabolic and Immune Disorders Drug Targets - December 19, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Raquel Marques Rodrigo Carlson Guilhain Higonnet Source Type: research
From garages to ecosystems: the coevolution of life science incubators and accelerators
Trends Biotechnol. 2023 Dec 8:S0167-7799(23)00329-3. doi: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2023.11.007. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIncubators and accelerators catalyze the launch of life science startups and have evolved from simple facilities to vibrant ecosystems offering research infrastructure, programs, and funding. Analysis of financing activities indicates the outperformance of incubator companies relative to accelerators in fundraising, mergers and acquisitions (M&As), and initial public offerings (IPOs), attributed to extended interactions with investors and peers.PMID:38114392 | DOI:10.1016/j.tibtech.2023.11.007 (Source:...
Source: Trends in Biotechnology - December 19, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Widya Mulyasasmita David V Schaffer Risa Stack Rowan Chapman Source Type: research
