Month: September 2022

CHINA AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ENTREPRENEURS. Understand the trends and find the opportunities. Right now they import technology innovations faster than creating them internally. Important data point. View in LinkedIn

THE FLATWORLD EDUCATION MOVEMENT is in high gear as online education goes really global. Watch this space! http://lnkd.in/ZXk7Fq View in LinkedIn

Consolidation among mid-sized specialty Pharma companies continues to shrink this pool of companies. Now there are just a handful of players who have not been merged or bought, and the likelihood is that the trend will continue. This is particularly true for those companies like Activis whose strategy is growth by acquisition not by slow organic growth. This should be interesting reading in the coming two years. http://lnkd.in/M_kVHJ View in LinkedIn

Ireland has a population of 4.5 M and yet this year alone they incorporated 6,500 new companies. Can this be a comeback to the heydays of Ireland, when it was attracting businesses due to lower tax and passport access? Impressive View in LinkedIn

IPO markets in healthcare continue to be open, while seasoned observers keep an eye out for a weakening trend. Regardless, this is a real marker in the sand that the "nuclear winter" of the past five plus years has been broken. http://lnkd.in/kRSBSC View in LinkedIn

Good summary of the literature on probiotic use concomitant with antibiotics. I have always been astonished that doctors do not routinely advise patients to take probiotics in parallel with antibiotics to prevent the unpleasant GI effects.. It simply works. http://lnkd.in/yjFXM2 View in LinkedIn

Pesticides and other related chemicals are linked to Parkinson's. No surprises here. It is abundantly clear that as we increase our environmental burden of toxins, the deleterious effects hit many life forms, including humans. We have been systematically fouling our own nest and the planet for hundreds of years, but at a greatly accelerated rate. We have poured our filth into the oceans so now we have mercury ratings for the fish we eat. This child in the increasingly filthy room does not have another room to play in, and needs to learn to clean up after itself sooner than later. http://lnkd.in/baU4-K View in LinkedIn

A bionic contact lens undergoes testing. Mix super-smart engineering and electronics with healthcare and this cross-fertilization is the kind of result to expect. Multidisciplinary teams and approaches will usually trump the inevitable GroupThink of single discipline teams. http://lnkd.in/58xrF9 View in LinkedIn

Virtual house calls by doctors. Surely better than nothing and an efficient use of resources. Technology is enhancing our medical world in many ways. http://lnkd.in/nCJA4d View in LinkedIn

A 3D pizza printer for astronauts on space missions? Wasn't it only in a blink of an eye that the very concept of 3D printing passed before our collective consciousnesses and now we are seeing it being used to make tools, and even food. I was in Kagoshima Japan last month visiting an advanced cancer proton therapy center. 3D printing of the exact dimensions and configuration of the patient's tumor was used to guide the ultra-precise photon beam to ablate the growth. Surgeons are 3D printing body parts for implants and surgical guidance. This technology is getting legs. http://lnkd.in/UkgV7D View in LinkedIn