Innovation: A competitive and useful tool in a globalized world

Innovation and Patentability Requirement in a Globalized World∗

One important element of a patent regime is the non-obviousness requirement, which captures the minimum improvement to the best patented technology a new invention is required to make in order for it to be patentable. We call it the required inventive step. We explore the implications of a patenting regime based on required inventive step, by incorporating such intellectual property protection ...

The Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool: A useful tool for pain assessment in intensive care units

Pain is a major concern in all intensive care units (ICUs). The proper assessment and management of pain is one of the main goals of patient care in ICUs. Improper evaluation of pain and its over or under treatment can cause significant problems in the process of patient management in ICU. Since most ICU patients are unable to communicate correctly with the ICU team and explain their level of p...

Food safety in a globalized world

Editorials 212 Access to sufficient safe food is a basic requirement for human health. Ensuring food safety and security in a highly globalized world presents increasingly difficult, and often under-appreciated challenges, for governments, commercial organizations and individuals alike. The risks of unsafe food are substantial , but can be difficult to quantify. Diarrhoeal diseases – both foodb...

Redistribution Policies in a Globalized World

Fighting Infection in a Globalized World

Probably the hardest human battle, one that has lasted hundreds of thousands of years, has been the one against infection. Being able to celebrate a 30 birthday was once considered a miracle but only if one survived the perilous years of childhood. Indeed, the CDC reports that in 1900, nearly 30% of deaths worldwide occurred in children 5 and under. It is remarkable how far we’ve come in our ab...