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Six major risks facing pharmaceutical manufacturers in 2021
Source: European Pharmaceutical Review Pharmaceutical manufacturers will face significant risks this year including reduced demand for prescription medicine, pharmaceutical fraud, supply chain disruptions, and more.
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Stanford athletes sue over program cuts, claim Title IX violation
Source: University Business Budget cuts have resulted in the cancellation of 11 athletic programs, leading to multiple lawsuits from student athletes.
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Stakeholders’ recommendations for revising Good Clinical Practice
Source: Science Direct The results of this global online survey provide insightful data including which ICH E6 principles stakeholders identified as most in need of revision.
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What New Federal Reserve Survey Reveals About Higher Education And The Pandemic
Source: Forbes The latest Survey of Household Economics and Decision-making (SHED) provides findings about education, employment, credit, housing, and more in the U.S.
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How Science Is Made: A Glimpse Of The People, Institutions And Money Behind It
Source: Discover Magazine Questions about to peer-review, funding, parameters, and reproducibility can help one decide when to trust a study’s claims.
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European Parliament amps up pressure on EU-US data flows and GDPR enforcement
Source: Tech Crunch The Data Protection Commission faces criticism for their lack of GDPR enforcement. To date they have only reached a final decision on one cross-border GDPR case.
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Forget Cryptocurrencies and NFTs—Securing Devices Is the Future of Blockchain Technology
Source: IEEE Spectrum Evidence that distributed ledger technology may be a viable approach to certify and secure millions of smart-home devices can lead to the development of further applications.
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Data potential of wearable health tech readings
Source: Open Access Government The integration of life-style information and data-points from wearable technology may play an important role in the future of personal healthcare.
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Lab rats are overwhelmingly male, and that's a problem
Source: CNN Health Why does it matter that the default lab rat is male, what's being done, and the challenges in identifying the sex of cells used in research.
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With new Working Group, NIST tackles privacy workforce development
Source: IAPP The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has created a public working group to develop guidance to help organizations build a workforce capable of managing privacy risks.
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