I a recent address Ken Henry, the chairman of the Future Tax System Review Panel and Secretary to the Treasury, outlined the rationale for continuing tax reform. The key opportunities and challenges facing politicians and policy makers, he said, are the following: the ageing of the population, posing challenges for the financing of retirement incomes [...]
President Obama may get pushed out of his internet attained office because of Health care. On the subject of Health care, I’ll be brief and anecdotal only. Someone with more available time may like to turn this into an empirical analysis. I thought I would do a quick little comparison for Health care [...]
Every time something happens we react. That is the nature of what animals, and humans do after all. We see rain, we take shelter. We are hot, we try to get cool and go for a swim. Totally human nature. Of course, as humans, we have this capacity to plan as well. Companies and governments [...]
A drug that's been around for a while, seems to work as a class attack on a number of cancers. See this New Scientist article. Interestingly, the author comments “…The next step is to run clinical trials of DCA in people with cancer. These may have to be funded by charities, universities and governments: pharmaceutical [...]
Amazing stuff. Yesterday I read that Google has so much cash on hand that it is now being classed as a Mutual Fund, which brings with it more reporting, more compliance issues etc. They apparently have more than 14 10 Billion on hand. Now today I read that they have done a deal with EBay [...]
If you were pressed, and had to make just one new friend in a new city/state/country/culture, who would that be? Think its hard? Nope. Its slam dunk easy. Ken Sabbag. Six years ago we met Ken. He was new in LA.So were we. We moved into apartments side by side. Cool guy. Then, actually, four weeks ago, Ken [...]
Bucky balls are just one of the nanotechnologies which are in the process of being deployed. The US is making multi-billion dollar investments this new, new tech which is intended drive a wave of growth the global economy estimated to be worth trillions over the next ten years. Perhaps, it might be worth reflecting on the implications, in this time outside the business helter-skelter
Bucky balls have a huge surface area compared to their volume, so they are highly reactive in a chemical sense — they readily glom onto almost anything nearby. Scientists have been hoping that bucky balls could be coated with medicines and injected into sick people to deliver specific remedies to specific parts of the body.
Customized drugs are here. A pharmacy in Illinois makes drugs that the majors don't. They point the way forward for the tailoring of medicine to consumer needs and wants. Today, major drug company business models pursue the most lucrative new find. Especially something that can enjoy the protection of a patent, ie has high price protection.. That means [...]
Traditional medicine relies on peer reviewed journals to announce medical breakthroughs or developments. Blogs now challenge that model. MedRounds is a new for profit company started by a doctor. A standard design has been mashed together for a group of 7 medical blogs (written on Blogger) all about eyes. The information is literally last minute stuff. July, a specialist [...]
A personal electronic health record is the nirvana for cost savers and better medicine advocates. One button access to previous health decisions and problems? Perfect. Republican Congressman Jon Porter wants the Federal Government to mandate this for its own employees. 4 million bureaucrats would be given credit card size electronic records within five years. It's [...]