NBC News Elon Musk’s X takes @X handle from longtime Twitter user It is possible to trademark a single letter, but doing so will make it harder for Musk’s company to sue for infringement or to avoid lawsuits from other companies that use X, said Alexandra Roberts, a professor of law and media at Northeastern University.
Texas takes step toward more gun control as US mass shootings on record pace – as it happened So far this year, the country has recorded 22 mass killings — all involving guns — that collectively have resulted in at least 115 deaths, according to a database maintained by the Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University.
Philadelphia Inquirer Post-Roe, contraceptive failures carry bigger stakes Navigating the failure rates of birth control medicines and medical devices is just one aspect of preventing pregnancy. Ensuring a male sexual partner uses a condom can require negotiation or persuasion skills that can be difficult to navigate, said Jennifer Evans, an assistant teaching professor and health education specialist at Northeastern University.
After repeating early COVID mistakes, US now has the world’s biggest monkeypox outbreak “If we don’t react more aggressively within the next couple of months – it’ll never be the same as coronavirus, but it could mimic the (spread of the) AIDS epidemic pretty closely,” said Jared Auclair, an analytical chemist and associate dean at Northeastern University in Boston.
Becker's Hospital Revew 3 takes on supply disruptions, drug shortage timelines from Northeastern researcher In an interview with Becker’s, Boston-based Northeastern University mechanical and industrial engineering professor Jacqueline Griffin, PhD, shared some thoughts on why drug shortages have plagued the nation for years and ways to fix the supply chain.
Vanity Fair FIGHT OVER ABORTION PILLS TAKES SHAPE IN POST-ROE AMERICA Amid the Biden administration’s vows to protect the right to medication abortion, it’s unclear “whether the FDA can preempt a state’s prohibition” on mifepristone, Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law told NBC, noting that there isn’t a Supreme Court decision on the matter and, “even if we did, we have […]
Ex-Drug CEO’s Criminal Trial Raises Stakes for Opioid Producers “There’s been a lot of criminal charges brought against various cogs in the wheel of Big Pharma over their supposed role in the overdose crisis, and corporate executives have been insulated from that,” said Leo Beletsky, a Northeastern University law professor who specializes on the law’s impact on public health.
The Omicron variant underscores the global stakes of Covid-19 vaccine inequity The European Commission suggested a ‘targeted waiver’ on compulsory licenses. But the move was derided because waivers are not needed for countries to issue such licenses. The idea is “basically meaningless” and a public relations “stunt,” said Brook Baker, a Northeastern University professor who specializes in access to medicines and intellectual property and is a […]
The Omicron variant underscores the global stakes of Covid-19 vaccine inequity The European Commission suggested a ‘targeted waiver’ on compulsory licenses. But the move was derided because waivers are not needed for countries to issue such licenses. The idea is “basically meaningless” and a public relations “stunt,” said Brook Baker, a Northeastern University professor who specializes in access to medicines and intellectual property and is a […]
GBH Who Should Own Images Of Enslaved Americans? Mass. High Court Takes On Property Rights Case Daniel Medwed, GBH News legal analyst and Northeastern University law professor, joined Henry Santoro on Morning Edition to discuss the legal issues.
Nature News Single-cell proteomics takes centre stage That study is one of at least half a dozen over the past year that have described single-cell proteomics strategies, tools and preliminary findings. And more are coming. In 2018, Nikolai Slavov, a systems biologist at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, hosted his first annual conference on single-cell proteomics, which attracted about 50 attendees. This […]
Stuck In A Rut? Sometimes Joy Takes A Little Practice For thousands of years, there’s been a common belief in Western culture about emotions — that they are hard-wired and reflexive, psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett writes in the book How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain. “When something happens in the world … our emotions come on fast and uncontrollable, as if somebody […]