Frontiers, like other for-profit open access publishers, has struggled with a perception it has low editorial standards and weak peer review. But is that true? In September 2023 Frontiers—one of the world’s largest open access scientific publishers, with a stable of 230 journals covering just about every field of science—retracted 38 papers. All had been […]
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Why is nitroglycerin in short supply in Canada?
Canada is experiencing an acute shortage of nitroglycerin, forcing emergency measures. But with drug manufacturing being international, will it be the only country to suffer? Patients with coronary artery disease in Canada have been facing months of shortages of the nitroglycerin drugs used to treat angina pain, forcing government regulators to extend the expiry dates […]
How “long covid” is shedding light on postviral syndromes
The global burden of long covid has put a spotlight on the long neglected mystery of postviral syndromes. Brian Owens asks what’s changing Long covid really shouldn’t have been a surprise, says Vett Lloyd, a biologist at Mount Allison University in Sackville, Canada. “When the pandemic started, the general assumption was that there were two […]