Published on Dowser on November 29, 2011. Read the original article here: Directed at budding social entrepreneurs, Social Enterprise Bootcamp, a recent two day workshop organized by students at Columbia, NYU and the School of Visual Arts, offered practical advice from an impressive array of speakers. Here are a few of the key take-aways: A social enterprise [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Social Enterprise Bootcamp in Seven Steps
Posted in Uncategorized on November 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Top five ways Big Pharma can address neglected diseases
Posted in Published articles, tagged AstraZeneca, Big Pharma, GSK, IFPMA, Intellectual Property Rights, Merck, Neglected tropical diseases, Novartis, Patent pools, Pfizer, Public health, Sanofi, WIPO on November 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Published in Forbes on November 22, 2011. Read the original article here My last post discussed the reasons why neglected diseases have historically been neglected, the growing efforts to eradicate them, and why pharmaceutical companies should develop more drugs for them. Unfortunately, the traditional economics of drug development are stacked against neglected diseases, which disproportionally affect [...]
How pharmaceutical companies can help take the ‘neglected’ out of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)
Posted in Published articles, tagged Neglected tropical diseases, NTDs, Pharmaceutical, Public health on November 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Published in Forbes on November 9, 2011. Read the original article here. What do schistosomiasis, cysticercosis, and lymphatic filariasis have in common? Besides verging on the unpronounceable, they are all classified as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). NTDs are a set of diseases – seventeen, by the World Health Organization’s count – that collectively affect over [...]
Personhood: Why Beginning Life at Conception Carries Risks, Even for Anti-Abortion Activists
Posted in Published articles, tagged Abortion, Amendment, Mississippi, Personhood, Pro-choice, Pro-life, Women's rights on November 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Published in Huffington Post on November 1, 2011. Read the article here or below On November 8, Mississippi voters will be faced with the following yes-or-no question regarding their state constitution: “Should the term ‘person’ be defined to include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the functional equivalent thereof?” If a [...]
