The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) today launched DrugCostFacts.org, a new interactive web tool designed to help healthcare stakeholders gain a better understanding of the true facts surrounding drug costs, spending and value.

The site features a series of commonly asked questions—ranging from “Why are some drugs expensive?” to “What role do PBMs, insurance companies and wholesalers play in determining what patients pay for their drugs?”—and then answers these questions using infographics, videos and interactive tools.

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Switzerland may be the best country in the world (or so says U.S. News & World Report), but there is plenty of happiness to be found here in the USA—and particularly in Florida, according to the latest data from Gallup-Healthways.  For the second year in a row, Naples and the nearby communities of Immokalee and Marco Island have ranked first in their “American well-being” Index, A. Pawlowski reports for Today.

Image: The beach at Naples, Florida. (Massimo Catarinella/Wikimedia Commons) 

Scott Gottlieb, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the agency, according to an emailed statement from the White House.

Gottlieb, 44, served in several senior positions at the FDA during the George W. Bush administration. He has talked extensively about how to lower the cost of prescription drugs by modernizing the agency’s approval process and speeding cheaper generic competitors to market.

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Iceland is credited for being the first country in the world to legalize abortion and the first to elect a woman as head of state in a national election. Now the progressive island nation in northern Europe will also be the first to ensure that all employees receive equal pay for equal work from employers. On Wednesday—fittingly, International Women's Day—Iceland's government announced it would soon introduce legislation requiring that employers with at least 25 workers obtain a certificate proving they offer equal pay regardless of the gender, ethnicity, sexuality, or nationality, the Associated Press reported.

Advice abounds on the best ways to manage your startup board, but it’s becoming clearer and clearer that who you choose to be on your board is just as important as how you leverage them.

Selecting and including an independent director or two, even when you’re still small, can boost your startup’s success and help guide your company to greatness. We’ve collected five recommendations to help CEOs/founders as they build their startup board.

Robb Willer studies the forces that unite and divide us. As a social psychologist, he researches how moral values — typically a source of division — can also be used to bring people together. Willer shares compelling insights on how we might bridge the ideological divide and offers some intuitive advice on ways to be more persuasive when talking politics.

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Technology and Innovation, edited and published by the National Academy of Inventors®, is a forum for presenting information encompassing the entire field of applied sciences, with a focus on transformative technology and academic innovation. Regular features of T&I include commentaries contributed by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and in-depth profiles of Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors® in every issue.

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PLAN Washington is a collaborative strategic plan aimed at achieving transformative change in six key areas that affect our state: Economy, Education, Environment, Governance, Health, and Transportation.

Now in its third edition, the PLAN’s content is sourced from committees of subject matter experts whose recommendations provide actionable steps for maximum impact.

Measurable goals challenge us to become a top 5 state by the year 2025. All rankings are from best (1st) to worst (50th) from the perspective of businesses.

Visit us online to receive progress updates, dive into the data, and become a member of Washington Business Alliance.

The life-sciences industry is embracing digital to unlock innovation. We spoke to ten digital leaders at global pharmaceutical companies to understand how they focus their efforts.

The conviction that competitive differentiation will require effective digital initiatives has led many life-sciences companies to create a new leadership role, chief digital officer (CDO), to guide their digital initiatives.

The KC Connector Project is a unique effort to recognize, support and connect the many people doing great things in our community to further the education of our young people and/or develop a supportive community for entrepreneurs and new businesses!

The KC Connector Project aims to generate an exciting community conversation on everything from education to entrepreneurship—a conversation that explores different models of leadership by asking you to identify key community members that make things happen. We want to celebrate these unique people and their efforts in improving our community.

Being part of the YouthHack Ventures Accelerator, founded by David Ongchoco C’18, has been a beyond rewarding experience. As a team of two freshman entrepreneurs starting a patient education app company, my co-founder, Eash Aggarwal C’18, and I have found it immensely helpful to have a network around us to support and help us through the ups and downs of growing a business.

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If you were protecting your smartphone passcode from someone lurking over your shoulder, or from unseen security cameras, you might cover the screen as you tap in the PIN’s four or six digits. But once you’ve unlocked the phone, perhaps you’d let down your guard, and leave the screen in full view—especially if it’s off.

That would be unwise, according to researchers at two German universities. At an upcoming conference on human-computer interactions, they will present a new study that explains how someone armed with a thermal-imaging camera would have little trouble extracting your passcode from the heat signature left on your smartphone’s screen. It even works 30 seconds after you last touched it.

We spend most of our adult waking hours working. Half of Americans continue to work when they reach their mid-sixties, and, according to a 2015 Gallup survey, full-time American employees work an average of 47 hours a week. If you’re keeping track at home, that’s six days’ worth of hours packed into five. Moreover, many of us today expand the role of work beyond just earning a living and expect our careers to provide opportunities for personal growth and fulfillment.

If you are in an influential position, you have probably said words to the effect of “My door is always open.” You likely meant this declaration very genuinely. You might well feel that you are a pretty approachable sort of person and that others feel comfortable coming to you with their issues and their ideas.

This may be true.

March is a special time of year for college basketball fans, and it can be a headache for professors vying for students’ attention as the season reaches its peak. But what if faculty members could harness the excitement of March Madness and channel it into a learning device?

Image: Brooke Scelza - Katie Hinde, an associate professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State U., created the 64-bracket contest that simulates mammals going head-to-head in combat against each other.

Well, that's one way to get an ab workout.

A South African man named Chris Bertish has just become the very first human being to cross the entire Atlantic Ocean on a stand-up paddleboard.

He made the fierce 4,050-mile journey alone at sea over 93 days, The Guardian reports, crossing from Agadir, Morocco to Antigua's English Harbor.

Open Innovation (OI) aims to create interactions, achieve complementarity and then merge in a common effort the most different energies with the aim of disrupting certainties emphasised by the status quo. A result made possible by attuning to the intelligence of the interlocutors. This ignites a process for discovering qualities that each protagonist of the conversation did not even think to have. A revelation that distinguishes and distances open innovation from that closed in the secret treasure of one's own intellectual enclosure. A revelation that lights the fire of imagination to show original and unexpected combinations of ideas.

Ray Leach, the CEO of Cleveland-based venture development organization JumpStart Inc. of Cleveland, was among the winners this week of awards from the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).

The organization this week at its NVCA Leadership Gala honored leaders in the venture capital industry "for their significant contributions to advance innovation, strengthen the industry and promote entrepreneurship."

Image: Photo by JUMPSTART - Ray Leach, center, the CEO of JumpStart Inc. is the winner of the National Venture Capital Association's American Spirit Award.

Knowledge@Wharton: Let’s start with the back story, because it’s unique to correlate the leadership qualities of guides with the business aspects.

Christopher Maxwell: This began in somewhere around 2004-2005, when (Wharton management professor) Michael Useem, director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management here, gave me a little funding to go out to one of the most remarkable places in the country, and that’s Jackson Hole, Wyoming. (It is) a beautiful place, with wonderful mountains and an expert group of guides.

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It's not easy buying a TV, and retailers don't like simplifying it, either. Urban legend has it that big box stores often tweak the settings on their wall of televisions to subtly guide consumers to the model they want to sell that day. Turn down the brightness here, add a pinch of contrast there, and viola, you've got one screen outshining the rest.