The COVID-19 TRIPS Waiver and the WTO Ministerial Decision
Peter K. Yu (Texas A&M University), The COVID-19 TRIPS Waiver and the WTO Ministerial Decision in IPR in Times of Crisis: Lessons Learned From the COVID-19 Pandemic (Jens Schovsbo, ed., Forthcoming): In October 2020, India and South Africa submitted an... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 22, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Chest pain, RBBB but “STEMI Negative”: Is this a false cath lab activation, or a false cancellation?
A 90 year old with a history of atrial fibrillation presented with two weeks of intermittent retrosternal chest pain lasting minutes. An hour prior to presentation it became constant and more severe, accompanied by nausea and general weakness, and the paramedics brought them to the ED as a code STEMI. Heart rate was in the 50s and other vitals normal. What do you think? There ’s atrial fibrillation, a right bundle branch block, normal axis and normal voltages. RBBB should produce secondary ST depression and T wave inversion in the anterior leads with the RsR’ (as it does in V1). But here in...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - July 18, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Jesse McLaren Source Type: blogs
mRNA Vaccines: From Tackling A Pandemic To Treating Cancer
The story of the multi-decade uphill battle Katalin Karikó and her fellow researchers fought to prove messenger RNA can viably be used in medicine is widely known today. In just as little as two years, the world has learned about mRNA technology and how fast it can react when the need arises holding almost unlimited promises in future applications. As always is the case with “instant hits” in science, the ride was actually very long and bumpy, but more on that later.
What is mRNA?
In very simple terms: messenger ribonucleic acids (or mRNAs in short) are the body’s natural way to transport messages from o...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 12, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Forecast Biotechnology Future of Medicine Nanotechnology cancer cancer research covid19 vaccine research HIV mRNA messenger RNA cancer vaccine malaria malaria vaccine HIV vaccine pancreatic cancer pancreatic cancer va Source Type: blogs
mRNA Vaccines: From Tackling Pandemic To Treating Cancer
The story of the multi-decade uphill battle Katalin Karikó and her fellow researchers fought to prove messenger RNA can viably be used in medicine is widely known today. In just as little as two years, the world has learned about mRNA technology and how fast it can react when the need arises holding almost unlimited promises in future applications. As always is the case with “instant hits” in science, the ride was actually very long and bumpy, but more on that later.
What is mRNA?
In very simple terms: messenger ribonucleic acids (or mRNAs in short) are the body’s natural way to transport messages from o...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 12, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Forecast Biotechnology Future of Medicine Nanotechnology cancer cancer research covid19 vaccine research HIV mRNA messenger RNA cancer vaccine malaria malaria vaccine HIV vaccine pancreatic cancer pancreatic cancer va Source Type: blogs
Most of us don ’ t have a desire for unlimited wealth
By Emily Reynolds
Do humans always want more, or are we sometimes just happy with our lot? This debate has long raged in multiple disciplines: economics, politics, and even philosophy. And whether an unlimited desire for more is inherent or a product of capitalism is equally hotly contested.
Paul G. Bain from the University of Bath and Renata Bongiorno from Bath Spa University explore this question in a new paper published in Nature Sustainability. They find that the assumption we always want more, no matter how much we have, may not be completely accurate: while some of us do have unlimited desire for wealth, they ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 5, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Money Source Type: blogs
Most of us don ’t have a desire for unlimited wealth
By Emily Reynolds
Do humans always want more, or are we sometimes just happy with our lot? This debate has long raged in multiple disciplines: economics, politics, and even philosophy. And whether an unlimited desire for more is inherent or a product of capitalism is equally hotly contested.
Paul G. Bain from the University of Bath and Renata Bongiorno from Bath Spa University explore this question in a new paper published in Nature Sustainability. They find that the assumption we always want more, no matter how much we have, may not be completely accurate: while some of us do have unlimited desire for wealth, they ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 5, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Money Source Type: blogs
Sobering up in South Africa: The Sin Tax Consequences of a Pandemic
Teresa Pidduck (University of Pretoria), Sumarie Swanepoel (University of Pretoria), Sobering up in South Africa: The Sin Tax Consequences of a Pandemic, 27 N.Z. J. Taxation L.& Pol ’y 331-352 (2021): In this article, the authors describe how the South... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 25, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The WTO Waiver on COVID-19 Related Intellectual Property Rights: Why It Should Be Adopted and Why It Is Not Enough
Eric Chin-Ru Chang (National Taiwan University), The WTO Waiver on COVID-19 Related Intellectual Property Rights: Why It Should Be Adopted and Why It Is Not Enough, UCLA L. Rev. Discourse (2022): India and South Africa have proposed a waiver to... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 6, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Sobering up in South Africa: The Sin Tax Consequences of a Pandemic
Teresa Pidduck (University of Pretoria), Sumarie Swanepoel (University of Pretoria), Sobering up in South Africa: The Sin Tax Consequences of a Pandemic, 27 N.Z. J. Tax ’n L.& Pol ’y 331-352 (2021): In this article, the authors describe how the South... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 5, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 18: The Recovery So Far
George Selgin(Although my contributions to this series have so far been more-or-less in their proper order, this one isn ' t: it occurred to me only relatively recently that it would be worthwhile to take stock of the overall progress of the recovery up to the outbreak of the Roosevelt Recession before delving into that episode. Had I done this in the first place, this installment would be Part 10 of the series, with the present Part 10 and all subsequent installments moved up a notch. –Ed.)When it struck down the Agricultural Adjustment Act in January 1936, the Supreme Court dropped the final curtain on the original New...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 1, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Cancer
I just finished reading The Emperor of All Maladies: A biography of cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee. I have a quibble with the title -- it should be history, not biography. By personifying cancer, he plays into just the mythologizing he is trying to dispel. But that aside, I found the book very informative. I knew the general outline of the story, but not a lot of the details. What I want to comment on here, which I believe is the key takeaway, is that medical practice is subject to ideological capture, even in the modern era of " scientific " medicine. In the center of the book is the horror story of radical mastecto...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 29, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Quiz post - which of these, if any, are OMI? What is the South African Flag Sign? Will you activate the cath lab? Can you tell the difference on ECG?
Written by Pendell Meyers, additions and edits by Grauer, Smith, McLarenBelow we have 5 cases of adults (ranging from 40-70 years old) who all presented to the ED with acute nontraumatic chest pain that sounded at least somewhat like potential ACS to the provider. You should look at each ECG and decide if it is OMI, not OMI, or something else.Our goal in this post is to compare and contrast OMIs with false positives that mimic them. In this post we will examine the anterolateral distribution that has been described as the " South African Flag Sign. " (SAFS)It is very hard to describe why an ECG expert can easily...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - May 11, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
A woman in her 30s with sudden chest pain, nausea, and diaphoresis. Was her cardiology management appropriate?
Case written and submitted by Brandon Fetterolf MD, edits by MeyersA woman in her early 30s with multiple autoimmune disorders including vasculitis presented with 2-3 hours of mid-left side chest discomfort with radiation to neck and left arm and associated with nausea, diaphoresis and dizziness. Initial ECG on presentation at 1554 (no prior for comparison):What do you think is happening to his 30s woman? The ECG shows NSR with a normal QRS except for poor R wave progression and pathologic QS-waves in V2-3. There is STE and hyperacute T waves in V2, I, and aVL with reciprocal STD in II, III, and aVF. This is...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - April 8, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
Why travel bans in response to Omicron are harmful
In late November, the state of the COVID-19 pandemic shifted once more when South African scientists reported the discovery of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant named Omicron. When panic surrounding Omicron ’s emergence set in, numerous countries instituted travel bans on South Africa and neighboring nations. As a medical student, I have begun to examine COVID-19 epidemiology andRead more …Why travel bans in response to Omicron are harmful originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 23, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/michelle-verghese" rel="tag" > Michelle Verghese < /a > < /span > Tags: Policy COVID Source Type: blogs
China, the TRIPS Waiver and the Global Pandemic Response
Peter K. Yu (Texas A&M University), China, the TRIPS Waiver and the Global Pandemic Response, Tex. A&M U. Sch. L. Legal Stud. (Research Paper No. 21-52, 2021): In October 2020, India and South Africa submitted an unprecedented proposal to the... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 20, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
