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Friday, February 22, 2013
Daisy Pettinger for FHM South Africa Magazine ? March 2013 issue
The 15th-Century Equivalent of Your Cat Walking on Your Keyboard
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Obama admin. encouraged by health law progress
WASHINGTON (AP) ? A day after Florida's Republican governor endorsed a key part of the federal health care overhaul, the Obama administration says it's encouraged by the progress.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says that states are deciding the Medicaid expansion is, quote, "simply too good to pass up."
Washington pays the full cost for the first three years, gradually phasing down to 90 percent. Millions of low-income people, mostly uninsured adults, would be covered.
Florida's Gov. Rick Scott, once one of the biggest opponents of the overhaul, reversed course this week and called on his legislature to accept the expansion. He's the seventh Republican governor to sign on.
Nationally, 21 states plus Washington, D.C., plan to expand Medicaid. Fourteen are declining. And 15 are still mulling options.
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Studies of H5N1 bird flu to require strict reviews
U.S. health officials announced plans for scientists to move forward with controversial research on the deadly H5N1 bird flu and said that any discoveries about how the virus might gain the ability to spread easily among humans should be shared with other scientists and the public.
The new policy, released Thursday by the National Institutes of Health, requires that studies aimed at making the virus more dangerous would now be subject to a heightened level of review. Effective immediately, researchers will have to explicitly delineate the potential science and health benefits ? as well as safety risks ? involved in their work before they can get government funding, said Dr. Amy Patterson, NIH associate director for science policy.
The NIH, through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is a leading funder of flu research.
The H5N1 virus is endemic in some bird populations in Asia and the Middle East, and began infecting people in the late 1990s. The World Health Organization has confirmed 620 cases of H5N1 in humans since 2003. It has been fatal nearly 60% of the time.
So far, the virus has mostly spread from birds directly to humans. But public health officials fear a pandemic could be in the offing if it were to mutate in a way that makes it easier to spread from person to person.
That's why scientists have been trying to see whether they can create a more contagious strain of H5N1. The new policy will allow that work to resume while trying to ensure that the virus can't escape the laboratory and cause a deadly pandemic, through accidental or deliberate means.
"Further understanding this virus is imperative," Patterson said.
The concern over the H5N1 experiments dates to 2011, when virologists Ron Fouchier of Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands and Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin announced that they had independently created bird flu strains that could be spread through the air among ferrets, which are often studied in the lab as proxies for humans.
The scientists were interested in seeing how mutations in the virus' genetic code could make such mammal-to-mammal transmission possible. Learning which DNA changes were key could help public health officials spot potentially dangerous alterations that emerge in the wild. The information also might help scientists develop better vaccines or antiviral drugs, Fouchier and Kawaoka said.
But just as the researchers were preparing to publish reports on their work in the journals Science and Nature, the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity asked that their studies be redacted so that the recipe for the contagious version of the virus would not fall into the wrong hands.
Fouchier, Kawaoka and dozens of other scientists agreed to a voluntary moratorium on their experiments as they worked with government agencies to identify the safest manner to proceed. The new rules are an outgrowth of those deliberations.
The biggest change is the addition of two new levels of review for research proposals involving this type of H5N1 experiment, Patterson said.
First, government agencies that are considering funding H5N1 transmission experiments will have to make sure the proposals satisfy seven criteria, including requirements that the research addresses scientific questions important to human health; that there are no other ways to answer those questions; and that safety and security risks can be managed effectively.
If the proposals pass these tests, they will undergo "a higher level of scrutiny" by reviewers at the Department of Health and Human Services, who will further consider the risks and benefits.
One of the seven criteria is a requirement that research will be "anticipated to be broadly shared in order to realize its potential benefits to global health."
Michael Osterholm, a infectious disease researcher at the University of Minnesota and a member of the biosecurity panel, objected to that requirement.
"The genie will get out of the bottle," he said. "If we publish this, it's right there for everyone to know. Any lab in the world could do the same work."
H5N1 researchers lifted their self-imposed ban in January, stating that they would resume work once governments announced safety plans.
Scientists who depended on U.S. funding were not able to proceed immediately. But now that the U.S. guidelines are out, researchers who halted their H5N1 transmission studies can submit documents addressing the criteria of concern. Patterson said that the department-level review process could be expected to take about three to four weeks.
Patterson said that Fouchier's and Kawaoka's experiments in 2011 would have qualified for funding under the new rules, but that "there would have been a lot more upfront articulation" of the risks and benefits.
eryn.brown@latimes.com
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Via Licensing Adds China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom To Its 4G LTE Standards-Essential Patent Pool
Via Licensing Corporation today announced that China Mobile and Deutsche Telekom joined the company?s LTE patent pool for standards-essential patents. The two telecom giants join AT&T, Clearwire Corporation, DTVG Licensing, HP, KDDI Corporation, NTT DOCOMO, SK Telecom, Telecom Italia, Telef?nica, and ZTE Corporation in this pool that launched last October. Give the vagaries of the patent system and the constant threat of litigation, a patent pool like Via Licensing?s allows telecom companies to reduce the risk of litigations and makes it easier for them to license their own patents.
?The addition of these key patent holders increases the benefit that the Via LTE patent pool brings to the 4G ecosystem. The inclusion of standard-essential patents from China Mobile and Deutsche Telekom to the LTE patent pool further strengthens the program and ensures licensees worldwide access to critical LTE IPR,? said Roger Ross II, President of Via Licensing in a statement today.
This statement was echoed by Deutsche Telekom?s CTO Bruno Jacobfeuerborn, who also noted that his industry ?is often affected by costly patent litigation and a lack of predictability surrounding the cost and availability of essential IP.?
The patent pool is open to all owners of LTE essential patents, that is, a patent that is part of the industry standard. The holders of standard-essential patents have to make these available for licensing and others have tried to launch LTE patent pools in the past (but mostly failed to gain traction). Via, it seems has been able to recruit a wide variety of patent holders and now that it has some momentum, chances are others will join as well.
Deutsche Telekom is the largest telecommunications company in Germany and the European Union. Subsidiaries include T-Mobile (the mobile phone provider), T-Home, and T-Systems. T-Venture is its venture capital arm.
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
Rwanda: Resident Shares Success Story During President's Visit
On a rainy day in Buruhukiro Sector, Nyamagabe District, thousands of residents braved the rain to meet President Paul Kagame on the first stop of his two day tour in the Southern Province.
Elias Uzabakiriho, 50, one such resident, is considered the best farmer in Nyamagabe. With only a primary school education, his first job was working in a farmer's project where he received 175 RwF per day ($0.26 USD). He eventually bought one hectare of land where he started to grow produce. It was hard labour without any return on investment as Nyamagabe has acidic soils. Before the genocide against the Tutsi, Nyamagabe received little government support which meant food shortages, hunger and premature death.
Today, Elias has 30 hectares of land. He grows potatoes, maize and wheat. In terms of potatoes, he produces about 360 tonnes per year. From this harvest, he distributes seeds to his neighbours, a testament to the pay it forward attitude that Rwanda's government has encouraged in programs such as the One Cow Per Poor Family (Girinka) program. The program provides cows to poor families who give the first born calf to a neighbour who eventually does the same. Elias himself owns 33 cows and has given 23 away.
He is particularly proud that his children, unlike himself, have been able to attend University. "Even I have had a chance to enhance my skills. I have attended training in Holland and Benin. Something I never thought I would be able to do," he said.
Not only is Nyamagabe self sufficient in terms of producing food for itself, the district now exports potatoes to neighbouring districts. "To achieve anything you have to change your mindset and work hard. I thank the government for creating policies that facilitate business that help change the lives of Rwandans like myself. I call upon all Rwandans to take advantage of this," Elias said.
President Kagame, speaking to residents of Nyamagabe, applauded the hard work of people such as Elias saying that they had been active in moving themselves and their district forward. "The government works with you, supports you, but you do the biggest part. It's an example of what you can do for yourselves and we encourage you to work together, pooling your strengths, and working with the government in its strategic plan; then everything is possible and the best is yet to come."
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