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Tight budgets complicate Canadian health research reforms
A major overhaul of the grant and peer review system at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research is underway. But will finances and objections from researchers…
Tackling prescription drug abuse
There are signs that strategies to address prescription drug abuse are starting to work but will an increase in illegal drug use be the payoff? Prescription…
Fish fight
In Maine, indigenous tribes have severed ties with the state. There are no border guards when you cross the bridge from the tiny village of Princeton,…
How Gamblers Try – And Fail – To Beat The System
Human tendency to seek patterns leads to misperception of randomness. Habitual gamblers are more likely to believe they see patterns in random sequences of events, and…
Patient safety a matter of design
An international group of health care systems has begun a year-long project to gather and share data on how to design systems to improve patient safety.…
Questions raised about whether compulsory licenses get best prices
The use of so-called ‘compulsory licenses’ by developing countries to obtain cheaper drugs for HIV and AIDS by circumventing patents has not been the best strategy…