Guided Search: Bioscience, Children

The interaction of green space and human health run along many lines, from health benefits of increased exercise to potential issue related to increased disease transmission from environmental sources to park users. The event is free!

 According to the Earth Day Network, "Earth Day marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.

The height of hippie and flower-child culture in the United States, 1970 brought the death of Jimi Hendrix, the last Beatles album, and Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. Protest was the order of the day, but saving the planet was not the cause. War raged in Vietnam, and students nationwide increasingly opposed it.

Despite mounting pressure from stockholders to discover the next blockbuster drug, R&D budgets are being reduced. Outsourcing drug discovery provides one solution, and China is an ideal partner for this. Among the benefits to outsourcing drug discovery in China:

* Instant market access to a growing local market;
* Lower operational costs;
* Access to new technology and its educated workforce,
* The Chinese government's financial commitment to the healthcare industry.