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As Vermont Goes Single Payer, So Goes The Nation?
Three years ago, Peter Shumlin, the governor of Vermont, signed a bill creating Green Mountain Care: a single-payer system in which, if all goes according to plan, the state will regulate doctors’ fees and cover Vermonters’ medical bills.
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Open Source Pharma And Prizes
I’m involved in a meeting happening next month in Italy that is asking “Can we develop a new open source pharmaceutical industry?” We’ll be talking amongst other things about incentives (such as prizes) and new ideas for the structure of pharma (legal and economic) and trying to come up with some pilot projects.
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Tata Trusts support the creation of the Open Source Pharma Foundation
Seeking to create a world of affordable medicine for all, Tata Trusts has announced their support for the creation of the Open Source Pharma Foundation (OSPF) at OSP2, the 2nd Annual Global Open Source Pharma conference. Held at Castle Rauischholzhausen in Germany on Sept 01 to 03, 2015, the OSP conference brought together researchers, NGOs, industry professionals, philanthropists and entrepreneurs...Open Source Pharma (OSP) is a concept inspired by the Linux model of operation. Adapted to tackling important public health challenges, it hopes to catalyze radical change in the way we do medical R&D and deliver better and more affordable innovation quicker and cheaper to patients.
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Why an Obscure Indian Journal Has an Impressive — and Growing — International Stature
Earlier this year a Canadian medical ethicist published a doozy of an essay1 claiming that the heavyweight New England Journal of Medicine was poorly vetting its authors and publishing shoddy studies. The piece drew lots of attention for those allegations. But what went unremarked, though perhaps just as notable, is the place where they appeared: The Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME). The IJME isn’t on anyone’s list of most desirable places to publish...But for a relatively unknown and ostensibly local title...it has an impressive list of staff and contributors, and has been earning plaudits from the science community lately.
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