The U.S. experience, where generic drugs made up 85 percent of the market, showed that high IP standards were compatible with “fulsome access to medicines,” said Mark Elliot from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Intellectual Property Center. But Northeastern University law professor Brook Baker said there were several proposals in the draft which would […]

Stocks plummeted Wednesday amid heavy waves of selling as jittery investors responded to a broad array concerns, from disappointing economic data in the United States to slowing European and Asian economies to the spread of the Ebola virus. With the Federal Reserve unwinding stimulus policies that supported the recovery, investors are becoming uncertain about the […]

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has claimed the lives of at least 4,033 people so far, including, last week, Thomas Eric Duncan in the United States. The toll is likely greater because many cases go unreported, according to the World Health Organization. Here are charts and maps that will help you understand the path […]

Experts, however, argue that online companies are not doing enough watch their networks and identify nefarious activity, as well as encrypt data prior to it being stored. “Service providers can block brute-force attacks. For example, if you see the same IP address logging in 100 times, that’s something you should check,” said Engin Kirda, a […]

In June, following gun attacks in California and Oregon, President Obama remarked that mass shootings are “becoming the norm.” But some commentators claim that mass shootings are not on the rise. So which is it?

Before interstate highways and air travel, the federal government would use its authority to set up quarantine stations along U.S. rivers and detain sick people traveling between states, Wendy Parmet, a public-health law professor at Northeastern University in Boston, said. But in modern times, that authority scarcely has been used. “This shows part of the […]

Breakfast may be the most important meal of the day, but for some it’s that morning cup of joe they can’t live without. But Northeastern University sophomores Ali Kothari and Johnny Fayad may have found a new way to get that morning fix. “We were constantly running late for our 8 a.m. classes and never […]

Also, how jobs are counted makes apples-to-apples comparisons tricky. MassBio is deliberately conservative in how it counts employees and focuses on manufacturing and research and development activities in the state. According to one study done by the Dukakis Center for Urban & Regional Policy at Northeastern University, the Massachusetts life science industries in 2012 employed […]

The key, all of these writers say, is to counter something that is emotionally “hot” — desire, temptation, emotion — with something “cool” — the brain’s executive function. Forcing yourself to remember the negative effects of smoking rather than savoring the experience in the present requires the rational part of our minds (the prefrontal cortex) to […]

Through a collaboration with Northeastern University, the ISI Foundation, and others, researchers have built a model to predict the progression of the disease in West Africa, if the disease continues at its current pace. Using flight patterns, they also predict which countries are likely to see Ebola cases in the future. They calculated the importation […]

A group of researchers at the Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio Technical Systems at Northeastern University in Boston has projected the countries that are most at risk to Ebola by the end of October. The United States, France, United Kingdom, Canada and China were among the countries named. Their research is based […]

The stock market’s wobbly, Europe’s economy looks weak, China looks a little peaked. You could worry plenty about the economy with a capital “E.” But for most people, the economy boils down first to a job. Everybody’s been spooked on that front at some point, but especially American blue collar workers. Now, we’ve got big […]