Author

Felicitas Holzer

University of Buenos Aires · Journal of Science, Humanities and Arts (JOSHA) · Journal of Science, Humanities and Arts (JOSHA) · Health Impact Fund

38 Publications

Health Impact Fund
Medicine
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.7.5.717

Health Impact Fund

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Felicitas Holzer

Health Impact Fund

As currently designed, pharmaceutical markets have a fundamental flaw that mainly affects poor people: the development of new medicines is funded exclusively through markups protected by patents. This flaw causes…

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Research on genetic Databases: Duties of Rescue and equal Respect to all
Life Sciences
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.7.2.650

Research on genetic Databases: Duties of Rescue and equal Respect to all

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Ignacio Mastroleo, Felicitas Holzer, Roland Mertelsmann

National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), BioThera Research Institute for the Philosophy of Translational Medicine, FLACSO collaborating centre of PAHO/WHO

The ideal exercise of Castellanos et al. asks IRB members to accept or deny a researchers’ request for disclosing genes associated with breast-ovarian cancer, a potential clinically significant finding (CSF),…

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Cruz-Diez: Aufstieg einer Familie.
News and Views
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.5.10.515

Cruz-Diez: Aufstieg einer Familie.

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Felicitas Holzer, María Fernanda Sandoval

University of Buenos Aires

The JOSHA Team had two times in this year the great opportunity to visit not only the atelier but also the Carlos Cruz-Diez Foundation in Paris, France. Our second visit…

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DEMETRIOS – PRIZE 2018. The Winners.
News and Views
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.5.7.460

DEMETRIOS – PRIZE 2018. The Winners.

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Roland Mertelsmann, Gerhard Steinmann, Stephan Seiler, Felicitas Holzer

Albert-Ludwigs Universität

The JOSHA Team is very pleased to share with you the names of the Winners of the Demetrios Prize 2018. For the categories BACHELOR and MASTER thesis the International Academy…

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JOSHA`s Critical Review of: “Systematic reanalysis of clinical exome data yields additional diagnoses: implications for providers”: IS THERE A NEED FOR “RECALL” IN CLINICAL MEDICINE?
Medicine
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.5.6.457

JOSHA`s Critical Review of: “Systematic reanalysis of clinical exome data yields additional diagnoses: implications for providers”: IS THERE A NEED FOR “RECALL” IN CLINICAL MEDICINE?

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Felicitas Holzer, Roland Mertelsmann, Ignacio Mastroleo, Gerhard Steinmann

University of Buenos Aires

In this study, the importance of new information generated after the initial diagnostic genome analysis was performed is strikingly demonstrated by the fact that new information was of relevance in…

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Informing patients of relevant health information and innovations: patient recall or annual physical?
Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.5.6.455

Informing patients of relevant health information and innovations: patient recall or annual physical?

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Felicitas Holzer, Ignacio Mastroleo, Roland Mertelsmann

University of Buenos Aires

Recently the NEJM published an interesting debate on the value of the annual physical (also known as “periodic health examination”) (Goroll 2015). “Today, because of the rapid growth of medical…

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1st Freiburg,Germany – Mendoza, Argentina Symposium on Translational Medicine
News and Views
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.5.5.423

1st Freiburg,Germany – Mendoza, Argentina Symposium on Translational Medicine

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Astrid Schmidt, Israel Vega, Birke Ahlfeldt, Roland Mertelsmann, Jürgen Rühe, Hans-Peter Deigner, María Colombo, Felicitas Holzer, Sean Patterson, Emiliano Diez

Facultad de Ciencias Médicas Universidad Nacional de Cuyo

The initiative for organizing this symposium arose a few months ago, during the visit of Prof. Borner and Prof. Mertelsmann. It was supported by the German Consulate of Mendoza, particularly…

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