By: Jason Anterasian COVID-19 vaccines and new technologies fighting climate change face the same perils. COVID-19 has upended the world and we are entering our third year of the pandemic. When the pandemic first emerged, private biopharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson quickly developed COVID-19 vaccines. Such rapid vaccine development was possible in part because these companies benefited from receiving government funding for COVID-19 vaccine research and development, advanced purchase orders from the government for the vaccines, or both. COVID-19 vaccines also built on prior decades of mRNA vaccine research that had been largely funded by the government. The biopharmaceutical companies now have patents on the vaccines and trade secrets on the manufacturing and commercializing of the vaccines, which have been cited as causes of the inequitable vaccine rollout throughout the world. According to the…
Heard about hot stone massage? Have you tried indulging into this kind of therapeutic practice? If not yet, then I bet it’s now time for you to know what a hot stone massage is and what it can do for you. The concept of hot stone massage has become widely valued and accepted in the healthcare industry today and a few years back. Numerous reports have in fact noted that from the past four years, hot stone massage became the rage of therapeutic centers, spas, salons, and clinics all over the world. Today, the concept is widely recognized as one of the most effective enhancement to the regular and traditional massage therapy practice. Origin of the Therapy Contrary to the popular belief, the concept of hot stone massage was not first recognized in the desert of Arizona, or by the visions of saints as once claimed by the massage therapists. The truth of the matter is, hot stone massage’s origin can be traced back 5000 years to India, with the ancient healing tradition of Ayurveda. Acco...
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