Historically the trove of medical and para-medical information known as “real-world evidence,” including health records but also insurance claims and patient registries, has mostly been used as a source for additional evaluation of the efficacy of existing drugs after they have already been approved. But […]
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TES GeoPolicy Editor McGroarty on the Tech Metal Age
Address by Dan McGroarty, TES GeoPolicy Editor Human history has been defined by our ability to obtain and use minerals, from the Stone Age, Copper Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age, to the Industrial Revolution (steel and coal) to the Jet Age (aluminum and […]
Diabetes Breakthrough Signals Need For New Treatment Approach
A major breakthrough in the clinical approach to type 2 diabetes holds out hope that newly diagnosed individuals can avoid many of the disease’s worst effects for far longer, according to Sir Michael Hirst and Dr. Päivi Maria Paldánius writing in CapX. Based on […]
Ban eating on public transit to fight obesity?
Obesity is clearly weighing on everyone’s mind (eh?) with a flurry of opinion and commentary, all of it predictably anti-. At issue is how far the government should go in curtailing individual liberty to combat fast-expanding waistlines, which in turn raises the […]
Are Central European countries ready for the Euro?
By Zsolt Darvas, courtesy Bruegel Institute Southern European euro-area members suffered from unsustainable developments after they joined the euro in 1999 and up to 2008, and have had great difficulties since. Inadequate national policies were the main causes of these unsustainable developments, but euro […]
Urgent reforms needed to help Argentine entrepreneurs succeed
Courtesy of Libertad y Progreso The reality of Argentine entrepreneurs is arduous. With growing inflation, the highest taxes in the world, Kafkaesque regulations, and overflowing labor costs, it is not surprising that in Argentina only 15% of the economically active population owns a business […]
Basic eye care could save sight of over 1 billion people
Over one billion people are at risk of losing their sight, the vast majority in low- and middle-income countries, according to a new report from the WHO, which urges that many of these people could be saved from vision loss with basic eye care. […]
The Nature of Brexit: Autumn and Everything After
By Calum Nicholson, UK Correspondent “You must understand that a world is dying, that old values, the old prejudices, and the old bases of power and prestige are going.” These were the words of Edward R. Murrow to his CBS radio audience in the Autumn of 1940, in a report from London […]
The Shark From Denmark: Vestager is coming for Big Tech
Execs for American Big Tech companies including Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon have probably been enjoying a few sleepless nights since the reappointment of Margrethe Vestager, the bare knuckles European competition supremo, to her post as European Commissioner for Competition, along with her elevation […]
EU should copy Belt and Road in Africa
Hopefully the name will make more sense. China’s much-discussed Belt and Road Initiative, seeking to create and strengthen land and maritime infrastructure across Eurasia, has attracted a lot of criticism for saddling low-income countries in its path with lots of debt […]