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Patents vs. the Pandemic
The flu vaccine was developed through open science, without any intellectual-property considerations. Imagine if we could do the same for COVID-19.
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Harnessing Healthcare Data to Find Lifesaving Cures
Sunny Grewal ’13 founded OMNY to help life sciences companies acquire the data they need to develop life-saving cures and let healthcare systems open new revenue streams.
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Do Hospital Mergers Bring Down Costs?
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Equitable protocols to triage life-saving resources must be specified prior to shortages in order to promote transparency, trust and consistency. How well proposed utilitarian protocols perform to maximize lives saved is unknown. We aimed to estimate the survival rates that would be associated with implementation of the New York State 2015 guidelines for ventilator triage, and to compare them to a first-come-first-served triage method.