Wesgro is the official agency that promotes tourism, trade and investment for Cape Town and the Western Cape. Among its strategic […]
Posts Tagged ‘Legislation’
The End of Paywalled Journals?
Science Europe is an association of European Research Funding Organisations based in Brussels, and earlier this week it published a controversial initiative called […]
Politics Trumps Common Sense
On 3 April 2018 the United States Trade Representative (USTR) published a list of 1,300 products imported from China that would be […]
The Benefits of Obamacare
In mid-January, a week before Donald Trump was sworn in as President, we asked what might happen to the Affordable Care Act […]
I’ll See You in Court!
We recently reviewed the false-negative conundrum and the devastating consequences for a woman if a malignant breast tumour is missed at screening. […]
A Crisis in Research Funding
A decade ago, when CapeRay was still being incubated within the University of Cape Town (UCT), we were successful in […]
A Tale of Greed
Last month we reported that Swiss pharmaceutical manufacturer Roche, which owns the patent for the breast cancer drug Herceptin, had set the […]
What’s Happening in Korea?
Much of the news emanating from South Korea recently has been decidedly negative. The country’s parliament voted to impeach President […]
Quo Vadis Obamacare?
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law in 2010, implemented the following year and was designed to cover […]
South Africa’s New Regulations
For the past two days the South African Medical Device Industry Association (SAMED) has been holding its annual conference in […]