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Translational research needs us to go back to basics and collaborate: interview with Lars Sundstrom

Lars Sundstrom is Director of Enterprise and Translation at the West of England Academic Health Sciences Network [1] (UK), a Professor of Practice in Translational Medicine and Co-Director of the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research at Bristol University [2] (UK), and an honorary Professor of Medicine at Cardiff University (UK). He has extensive experience in translational medicine...

Back to Basics : Basic Research

This paper introduces a model of endogenous growth through basic and applied research. Basic research differs from applied research in two significant ways. First, significant advances in technological knowledge come through basic research rather than applied research. Second, these advances are potentially applicable to multiple industries. Since these applications are not immediate, the innov...

Health care reimbursement: Clemens to Clinton.

THE HISTORY OF HEALTH INSURANCE The history of health insurance goes back centuries, possibly to ancient China and the Norman Conquest. Henry I introduced sweeping health care reforms to the newly combined kingdoms of England and Normandy. Soon thereafter, at least one “physician,” “John of Essex,” was receiving an honorarium of one penny per day for his efforts. As historians explained, that s...

Watch Your Back! How the Back Pain Industry Is Costing Us More and Giving Us Less.

Excerpt] This book considers what we know about treatments for back pain and asks a number of critical questions. Are some of the most popular treatments really effective? Do they “cure” or even improve the problems they claim to address? If some back pain treatments are ineffective or even harmful, why do patients clamor for them and doctors provide them? Who benefits from the vast back pain i...

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