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Earlier this month Senator Edward Kennedy heard testimony from leading cancer advocates in a hearing titled Cancer: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century. Greg Simon, President of FasterCures was one of the panel witnesses on May 8th and this week had the following to say on hearing the news of Senator Kennedy’s own diagnosis with a malignant brain tumor this week.

Tags: Oncology, Product Strategy, Patient Strategy

In the early part of this decade, the design and usability community was actively engaged in a discussion of how to make the Internet more accessible to those with vision or cognitive disabilities. User interface expert Jakob Nielsen published a fairly detailed report on the topic in 2001 and the WC3, the organization that governs the standards of website development, formed the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group. There was also very spirited criticism and discussion of the above published by Jeffrey Zeldman, editor of the web development and usability online journal, A List Apart.

Tags: Accessibility, Usability, Patient Strategy, Product Strategy, Investor Strategy, Transforming Technology

The topic of speeding up websites deployed using the Drupal content management system is a well traveled and rich literary landscape. In fact, search the internet for a variety of performance topics, both Drupal specific and more generic and you will find dozens of articles offering advice, techniques and all too often sympathy for your plight. Unfortunately, the wealth of conversation on the topic is a pretty good indication of the need to get information about making Drupal perform.

Tags: Transforming Technology, Patient Strategy, Product Strategy, Global Strategy

This week and next, my favorite shopping haunts in Soho are sharing space with Navigenics, the personalized DNA testing company. I usually visit SoHo for frocks at Legacy, cocktails at Thom Bar, and sushi at Blue Ribbon, but this week I can go to Soho and provide saliva in a cup to find out what my genes might tell me about the future of my health. Navigenics is renting space in a Soho storefront to promote its groundbreaking products.

Tags: Patient Strategy, Web 2.0

Last week, I attended the Epilepsy Pipeline Update conference, provided by our client the Epilepsy Therapy Project. The Epilepsy Therapy Project exists to overcome the barriers to successful translation of promising new research insights and to make new therapies a reality for patients...

Tags: Patient Strategy, Clinical Strategy, Epilepsy Therapy Project