The enormity and severity of the West African Ebola epidemic that began in 2014 is hard to fathom. Over 10,000 people died with hundreds of thousands deeply affected by loss. In treating any medical condition, information is needed to provide adequate care, but when it’s an epidemic so severe, so dangerous and so fast-moving, it’s required more than ever. Ebola creates enormous barriers for patient care. It’s communicability means those who directly treat patients within the “Red Zone” must take extreme precautions. The lack of knowledge about who is infected and what constitutes effective treatment — not to mention the swift and severe toll it takes on the human body — makes caring for those affected extremely difficult...
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"Industry Will Not Support Open-Ended Science, So Govt Must"
Aradhna Wal | CNN-News18 | December 20, 2016
On December 11, News18 exposed how India’s clinical trials and drug discovery process is skewed towards diseases like cancer while ignoring the top killers of the country like TB, diarrhea and Kala Azar. Responding to that, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Director-General of the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) told News18 there was a need to support indigenous research in India. In this interview to News18’s Aradhna Wal, Dr Swaminathan says India needs a 10-year vision on drug research...
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A Law Professor’s Big Idea for Combating Greedy Drug Company Titans Like Martin Shkreli
Noah Berlatsky | Quartz | September 21, 2017
In 2015, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals Martin Shkreli infamously raised the price of the life-saving drug Daraprim by 5,000%. Daraprim, developed more than 60 years ago, is used to treat the deadly parasitic infection toxoplasmosis. It was selling for $13.50 a pill; then Turing raised the price to $750. The move sparked massive backlash and Congressional hearings, and Shkreli himself was eventually arrested for, and convicted of, unrelated securities fraud charges. But the original, horrible problem didn’t get fixed. Turing kept the price sky-high; as of August 2016, many patients were paying $375 per pill...
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Brain-Machine Interface Helps Paraplegic Patients Regain Some Feeling
Press Release |
Duke Neurobiology |
August 12, 2016
Eight people who have spent years paralyzed from spinal cord injuries have regained partial sensation and muscle control in their lower limbs after training with brain-controlled robotics, according to a study published Aug. 11 in Scientific Reports. The patients used brain-machine interfaces, including a virtual reality system that used their own brain activity to simulate full control of their legs. Videos accompanying the study illustrate their progress. The research -- led by Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D., as part of the Walk Again Project in São Paulo, Brazil -- offers promise for people with spinal cord injury, stroke and other conditions to regain strength, mobility and independence.
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Brazil studies the adoption of openEHR
Jussara Macedo Rotzsch | E-Health Reporter | August 22, 2012
The country sets new standards and methods for its National Electronic Health Record Project...As part of the implementation process for stage III of government decree No. 2.073, OF THE 31ST AUGUST 2011, a national EHR Workshop was held aimed at defining the methods and standards to be used for the Brazilian EHR Project (RES-National)...
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Brazil's health IT market to top $714 million by 2015
Brian Dolan | MobiHealthNews | August 21, 2012
According to a recent report from Frost & Sullivan, the Brazilian market is the second fastest growing BRIC market after China. Last year Brazil’s health IT market generated revenues of $410 million, which is expected to hit $714 million by 2015. Read More »
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Brazil's Internet Gets Groundbreaking Bill Of Rights
Aviva Rutkin | New Scientist | April 25, 2014
Brazil's internet now has its own bill of rights. On 23 April, the country's president, Dilma Rousseff, signed the Marco Civil da Internet, a bill that sets out new guidelines for freedom of expression, net neutrality and data privacy for the country's 100 million internet users.
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Cisco’s Disastrous Quarter Shows How NSA Spying Could Freeze US Companies Out Of a Trillion-Dollar Opportunity
Christopher Mims | Quartz | November 14, 2013
Cisco announced two important things in today’s earnings report: The first is that the company is aggressively moving into the Internet of Things [...]. The second is that Cisco has seen a huge drop-off in demand for its hardware in emerging markets [...]. Read More »
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Continua Alliance Launches Presence In Latin America
Eric Wicklund | mHIMSS | May 3, 2013
The Continua Health Alliance is pushing into Central and South America with the establishment of a Brazil Work Group. Read More »
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CRITICAL Software to Exhibit with openEHR at the MEDINFO 2015
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CRITICAL Software |
August 4, 2015
CRITICAL Software and the openEHR foundation will be jointly exhibiting at the 15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics: MEDINFO 2015. The premier international event will be hosted by SBIS (the Brazilian Health Informatics Association) on behalf of the IMIA (the International Medical Informatics Association).This year's theme is 'eHealth - enabled Health', and will attract industry world leaders to share knowledge on how eHealth and Biomedical Informatics are being used to address some of the most challenging problems we face in healthcare today.
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E-Learning In Africa: Massive, Online And Free
Staff Writer | The Africa Report | September 11, 2013
Coming to a laptop near you, the Brazilian model of free online learning that could revolutionise African education.
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Exclusive: Inside America's Plan To Kill Online Privacy Rights Everywhere
Colum Lynch | FP | November 20, 2013
The United States and its key intelligence allies are quietly working behind the scenes to kneecap a mounting movement in the United Nations to promote a universal human right to online privacy, according to diplomatic sources and an internal American government document obtained by The Cable. Read More »
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Fighting Ebola with Open Source Collaboration
By Jeff Neiman | August 31, 2016
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Global Study Finds Majority Believe Traditional Hospitals Will Be Obsolete In The Near Future
Nicole Fisher | Forbes.com | December 9, 2013
A global study was released this morning by the Intel Corporation indicating that around the world people’s health care wants and needs are principally focused on technology and personalization. The “Intel Health Innovation Barometer” found a consistent theme: customized care.
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Google Sees More Government Requests To Remove Content 'Than Ever Before'
Rebecca J. Rosen | The Atlantic | April 25, 2013
In the latest edition of its Transparency Report, released this morning, Google revealed that the final six months of 2012 saw an increase in government requests to remove content -- often YouTube videos... Read More »
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Google Transparency Report Shows Rising Trend Of Government Surveillance
Katitza Rodriguez and Rebecca Bowe | Electronic Frontier Foundation | November 15, 2012
Each year, Google receives thousands of demands from governments around the world seeking information about its users. People who use any of the search engine giant’s free online services – such as Gmail, YouTube, Google+ or Blogger – leave digital footprints behind, and information relating to their accounts is increasingly sought out by law enforcement agencies. [...] Read More »
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