Underfunding hits patents

Ethics and health care 'underfunding'.

There are continual “crises” in health care systems worldwide as producer and patient groups unify and decry the “underfunding” of health care. Sometimes this cacophony is the self interest of profit seeking producers and often it is advocacy of unproven therapies. Such pressure is to be expected and needs careful management by explicit rationing criteria which determine who gets access to what...

Underfunding Aged Care

The underfunding of lung cancer research.

Despite major advances in the field of oncology in research, diagnostic methods, and treatment modalities, lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death in the United States among both men and women. With an estimated 215,020 new cases and 161,840 deaths in 2008, lung cancer is responsible for more than 25% of all cancer deaths. Given these alarming statistics, one would assume that lun...

Patents or Patents Pending

An Aluminum Nitride (AlN) MEMS resonator technology has been developed, enabling massively parallel filter and oscillator arrays on a single chip. Low loss filter banks and resonator arrays covering the 10MHz10GHz frequency range have been demonstrated, as has monolithic integration with inductors and CMOS circuitry. The high level of integration enables miniature multi-band, spectrally-aware a...

Big Hits

T here aren't many sports articles in the journal Science, so it was with great interest that I read " A Late Hit for Pro-Football Players " by Greg Miller (www. sciencemag.org). 3 This article is a very interesting compilation of recent research and developments in the area of sports-related concussion. The article highlights the efforts of Chris Nowinski, a former Harvard football standout wh...