A “Malaria Box” that could hold the answer to discovering new drugs to treat tropical diseases and cancer has been created for researchers around the world. Griffith University tropical disease researchers have joined together with a host of international laboratories to advance drug discovery for major topical diseases through the creation and testing of the Malaria Box. In a paper published this week in the top journal PLoS Pathogens, the global team present findings on a panel of 400 chemical compounds – dubbed the “Malaria Box” – with potential application as therapeutic starting points for diseases like malaria, trypanosomiasis and toxoplasmosis.
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Griffith Scientists Unlock the “Malaria Box”
Press Release |
Griffith University |
August 1, 2016
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Gropper Named CTO Of Patient Privacy Rights
Rachel Landen | ModernHealthcare.com | May 6, 2013
Patient Privacy Rights in Austin, Texas, added Dr. Adrian Gropper last month as its chief technology officer. Read More »
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Group Advocates For Single-Payer System Over HIX
Tammy Worth | Government Health IT | March 17, 2014
Even as the Affordable Care Act is in its nascent stages, some states are already looking toward 2017 when they can request waivers to opt out of the healthcare exchanges. And a small, but persistent, movement has popped up toward a single payer system as an alternative to participating in the exchanges.
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Group Contracted To Study DoD-VA iEHR Migration At Pacific JITC
Kyle Murphy | EHR Intelligence | October 29, 2012
The Military Health System (MHS) has awarded Eleu Pacific Partners a two-year, $11.2 million contract to conduct a feasibility study of the transition and migration strategies to be used by the Pacific Joint Information Technology Center (JITC), according to an announcement by Tricare Management Activity (TMA). Read More »
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Group Reports Progress on an Open Serialization Communication Standard
Pharmaceutical Technology Editors | Pharm Tech News | August 17, 2016
The Open Serialization Communication Standard (Open-SCS) Group, which held a meeting in Princeton, NJ recently, reports that it is making progress toward its goal of drafting core serialization standards to facilitate data exchange for packaging line serialization and aggregation. Open-SCS was established in 2015 by pharmaceutical manufacturers that include Abbott, Johnson and Johnson, Pfizer, Roche and Teva, as well as such vendors as Antares Vision, OCS, Omron, Optel Vision, Systech, TraceLink and Werum IT Solutions...
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Group Warns Almost 500 Products Contain Chemical Found In Yoga Mats
Michelle Castillo | CBS News | February 27, 2014
Subway made news earlier in February when the sandwich chain announced it was removing a chemical called azodicarbonamide (ADA), which is used to make yoga mats, from North American formulations of bread. But now, a consumer advocacy group is warning people that almost 500 more food items on the market have this same compound. Read More »
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Groups Urge Obama To Delay Federal HIT, mHealth Regs
Diana Manos | Government Health IT | June 21, 2013
A group of more than 100 health IT stakeholders sent a letter to the Obama Administration this week, cautioning the quick implementation of regulation for the industry. Read More »
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Groups: Billions More Needed To Address Veterans' Health Care, Benefits Issues
Matthew M. Burke | Stars and Stripes | February 6, 2014
The federal government will fall well short of meeting veterans’ health care and benefits needs in the coming years, several leading veterans service organizations said this week, and tens of billions of dollars in additional spending will be needed to adequately address the issue. Read More »
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Growing Support For Spain Ministry Process Tool Made Open Source
Gijs Hillenius | European Commission (EC) | June 7, 2013
A rapidly rising number of software service providers is willing to offer support for the implementation or integration of Al Sigm, a system to manage complex procedures, that is developed by Spain's ministry of Industry, Tourism and Energy. Read More »
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Growth Of SMART Health Care Apps May Be Slow, But Inevitable
Andy Oram | O'Reilly Radar | September 13, 2012
This week has been teaming with health care conferences, particularly in Boston, and was declared by President Obama to be National Health IT Week as well. I chose to spend my time at the second ITdotHealth conference, where I enjoyed many intense conversations with some of the leaders in the health care field [...]. Read More »
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GSA Envisions 18F Will Be The New Hub Of Digital Innovation
Jason Miller | Federal News Radio | March 19, 2014
The Presidential Innovations Fellows have a new home, and the General Services Administration is building on federal Chief Technology Officer Todd Park's vision for the government to act as a lean start-up.
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GSA Seeks Governmentwide Mobile Device Management Contracts
Joseph Marks | Nextgov | February 8, 2013
The General Services Administration is seeking governmentwide contracts with vendors who can ensure the security of federal employees’ smartphones and tablets and the applications that run on them, solicitation documents show. Read More »
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GSA Unveils Data Federation Portal
Mark Rockwell | FCW | September 29, 2016
A day after the White House convened an Open Data Innovation Summit to discuss its work to structure and share government data, the GSA unveiled a new effort to highlight emerging data standards and API initiatives across federal, state and local government. The Open Data Summit on Sept. 28, co-hosted by White House, the Small Business Administration, the General Services Administration and the industry-backed Data Foundation, showcased cutting-edge uses of open data driving government efficiency, innovation and economic opportunity for the public...
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GSA’s Open Source First Approach Gives More Software Options, Better Savings
Billy Mitchell | fedscoop | August 6, 2014
The General Services Administration last week announced a new policy requiring open source software be given priority consideration for all new IT projects developed by the agency. And while some may question whether open source software will be as effective as its conventional, proprietary counterpart, Sonny Hashmi, GSA’s chief information officer, is confident this new IT model will put the agency in the best position to procure and develop software in the most cost-effective manner. Read More »
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GSB Pushes For Online Education
David Furlonger | Financial Mail | July 18, 2013
Even by the usual standard of acronyms, Mooc is particularly clumsy. But is this new buzzword the future of education? Read More »
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