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A Victory for Open Access

Staff Writer | The Hindu | May 2, 2012

Harvard University's decision to ask faculty members to make their papers available in the university's open-access repository and choose open-access journals or those with reasonable subscription costs is a sign that the movement for affordable research is gaining ground. Read More »

Academic Spring: Phase Two

Edward Fullbrook | Real-World Economics Review Blog | May 7, 2012

[The UK] Minister of State for Universities and Science announced last week that beginning in the near future all UK publicly funded academic research will be available on the Web free of charge to anyone anywhere in the world.  This is not a politician’s pipe dream; Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, has already been hired to set it up. Read More »

Biden Announces Major Open Initiatives At Cancer Moonshot Summit

Press Release | The White House | June 28, 2016

Today, the Cancer Moonshot is hosting a summit at Howard University, in Washington, D.C. as part of a national day of action that also includes more than 270 events in communities across the United States.  Vice President Joe Biden will join over 350 researchers, oncologists and other care providers, data and technology experts, patients, families, and patient advocates, among others, will come together at Howard University.  They will be joined by more than 6,000 individuals at events in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and Guam.  This is the first time a group this expansive and diverse will meet under a government charge is to double the rate of progress in our understanding, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care of cancer...

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Boycott Of Publishing Giant Elsevier Gathers Pace

Zane Schwartz | The Varsity | September 10, 2012

Frustrated by what they call an exploitative business model and unreasonable prices, researchers at [University of Toronto] have joined a growing movement asking: how much must we pay for knowledge?
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Brian Knappenberger On Capturing The Life And Death Of Aaron Swartz In The Internet’s Own Boy

Jon Dekel | National Post | April 24, 2014

In 1986, the U.S. Congress, spooked by the fictional film War Games — in which a hacker unwittingly almost kicks off the Third World War by breaking into NORAD’s supercomputer — enacted the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Nearly three decades later, that same anachronistic law became the basis of the overzealous prosecution and ultimate suicide of one of the online world’s most prodigious sons.

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Despite Slight Drop In Uninsured, Last Year’s Figure Points To 48,000 Preventable Deaths: Health Expert

Press Release | Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) | September 12, 2012

Persistence of large numbers of uninsured and related deaths shows urgency of enacting an improved-Medicare-for-all system, physician says Read More »

FCC Move Seen As Disaster For Online Start-Ups

Rob Garver | The Fiscal Times | April 27, 2014

...Federal courts have twice blocked efforts by the FCC to codify what’s commonly known as “net neutrality.” That’s the idea, basically, that Internet Service Providers cannot discriminate against different kinds of traffic on the Internet...

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Harvard & MIT Announce EdX, a Disruptive Joint Venture That Will Offer Free Online Courses

Lauren Landry | BostInno | May 2, 2012

By the time the first MITx course launched, 90,000 people had already registered, merely proving the popularity of online education. Today, however, with the help of Harvard University, MIT’s upped the ante. Together, the two have announced EdX, a new tool designed to build on both schools’ experience in online learning. Read More »

Harvard Develops Cancer-Killing Nanorobots

Sean Fraser | Digital Journal | February 17, 2012

The relentless pursuit of a cure for one of humanity's most devastating diseases took a rather large leap with a very small invention recently as Harvard develops cancer-targeting nanorobots that seek out cancer cells and kills them. Read More »

Harvard Docs: Time Is Right for Patient-Centered Health Repositories, Not Portals

Jonah Comstock | MobiHealthNews | January 26, 2016

A number of public and private initiatives have been launched over the years in the name of a personal health record for patients. But one way or another, they've all failed to gain traction, according to Drs. Isaac Kohane and Kenneth Mandl of the Harvard-affiliated Boston Children's Hospital, who published an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine last week. The authors believe now might be the time to finally realize that ambition...

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Harvard University Says It Can't Afford Journal Publishers' Prices

Ian Sample | The Guardian | April 24, 2012

Exasperated by rising subscription costs charged by academic publishers, Harvard University has encouraged its faculty members to make their research freely available through open access journals and to resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls. Read More »

Health IT Can Learn From Past Screw-Ups

Paul Cerrato | InformationWeek | June 25, 2012

In healthcare today, we're seeing many clinicians give up paper recordkeeping systems by patching in EHRs. Then they're frustrated because they don't see the productivity spike they'd hoped for. What's really needed is process re-engineering by EHR vendors and clinicians alike.

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John Halamka Uses Big Data Analytics In Healthcare To Fight Wife's Cancer

Kristen Lee | SearchHealthIT | September 1, 2015

When John Halamka, M.D., CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and his wife, Kathy, found out she had stage 3 breast cancer in 2011, they turned to big data analytics in healthcare to find the best treatment plan. Fortunately for Halamka and his wife, the Boston area is home to 17 Harvard-University-affiliated hospitals, including Beth Israel, that have opened their data for queries via a free open source, Web-based application called i2b2. Any medical record system in the country can connect to i2b2's database and EHR, Halamka said.

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Kitware and Harvard Map the Mammalian Connectome

Press Release | Kitware | August 28, 2012

Kitware, a leading open-source technology integration provider, today announces the development of a computational infrastructure for mapping the mammalian connectome. The project is supported by $999,981 in Phase 2 SBIR funding from the National Institutes of Health.
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Nature Journal on the Need for Clinical-Trial Data Sharing Regulations

Editorial | Nature | May 17, 2016

Governments need to tighten regulation if the sharing of clinical-trial data is to succeed. Clinical science has a compatibility problem. Although there are set protocols to test medicines and to treat patients, no such standards exist to compare clinical-trial data. The problem arises because each research group has a preferred method of collecting and categorizing results. Differences can be as great as omitting or including the gender and ethnicity of patients enrolled, or as mundane as the vocabulary used in medical records...

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