Just as we are developing vaccines for the novel Coronavirus that causes COVID-19, concern has rightfully exploded over multiple COVID Variants that have appeared on the screen. To track these Variants, in you might say, a COVID Variant Tracking Project or effort, we’ve started to compile data to recalculate the R value for individual variants […]

Congratulations!! to the US Ryder Cup Team for Bringing Home the Ryder Cup after an 8-year gap. The US Team beat their European competitors 17-11 at the Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota. The win was an all-around team effort with every American golfer contributing a point. Congratulations to the entire US Team – […]

Quite simply, Medical GIS is the application of Geographic Information Systems into the healthcare arena and fall under the broad “Health IT” umbrella. This, of course, just pushes the question back to what is GIS and what can it do for healthcare. What is GIS? The definition of GIS is “a system designed to capture, […]

I had the pleasure of attending the Cannabis World Congress and Business Expo (#CWCBExpo) at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City from June 14th-17th recently and learned a great deal about all aspects of the growing legal Cannabis industry. The cannabis industry is taking shape at the state level, and at the […]

We have launched our first crowd funding campaign – to fund our Cannabis clinical trials. Take a look. HSR has designed a series of human-subject clinical trial to assess the efficacy of Cannabis towards the treatment of Chronic Arthritic Pain. We need to raise $250,000 to perform the first trial. While the trail may cost […]

Much of our discussions with people – whether with providers, payers, regulators, potential collaborators & fellow researchers, or just people we come across at networking events – revolve around a specific project we’re working on rather than the overall mission and vision of our firm. I suppose that’s natural to some extent and several of […]

CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley is doing a multi-part series on opioid addiction in America, “In the Shadow of death: Jason’s Journey”. The series documents Jason’s, a heroin addict, road to recovery, and offers an honest and stark portrayal of the life of an addict. Many who succumb to addiction, do so not through […]

We congratulate the US Senate for both drawing attention to and taking bipartisan and near unanimous action on America’s growing opioid abuse problem. Measures need to be taken on this epidemic and discussion on what the right measures are must be held. We feel that its important to note that pain is often best treated, […]