Archive for November, 2012
Anatomy of a pandemic
The Lancet, Volume 380, Issue 9857, Pages 1883 – 1884, 1 December 2012 doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61887-X http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)61887-X/fulltext?_eventId=login&&elsca1=ETOC-LANCET&elsca2=email&elsca3=E24A35F
Read MoreImplications of the 2012 Election for Health Care — The Voters’ Perspective
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsr1213905?query=TOC Implications of the 2012 Election for Health Care — The Voters’ Perspective Robert J. Blendon, Sc.D., John M. Benson, M.A., and Amanda Brulé, M.A. November 28, 2012DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsr1213905
Read MoreThe ‘Re-Identification’ of Governor William Weld’s Medical Information: A Critical Re-Examination of Health Data Identification Risks and Privacy Protections, Then and Now
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2076397 Daniel C. Barth-Jones Columbia University – Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology June 4, 2012
Read MorePhysicians’ Top Ethical Dilemmas
http://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/public/ethics2012#1
Read MoreFormer university professor accused of research misconduct
Following an investigation by the U.S. Office of Research Integrity, a decade of work from a former UK professor has been censored following allegations of scientific misconduct. Eric J. Smart, a former UK professor...
Read MoreFor Attribution — Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards: Summary of an International Workshop
The growth of electronic publishing of literature has created new challenges, such as the need for mechanisms for citing online references in ways that can assure discoverability and retrieval for many years into the...
Read MoreGenome-Based Therapeutics: Targeted Drug Discovery and Development: Workshop Summary
The number of new drug approvals has remained reasonably steady for the past 50 years at around 20 to 30 per year, while at the same time the total spending on health-related research and...
Read MorePresident’s Bioethics Commission Posts Study Guide Related to its Historical Investigation of the 1940s U.S. Public Health Service STD Experiments in Guatemala
Guide designed to encourage ethics education November 15, 2012 Washington, D.C. – The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues today released an ethics study guide based on the Commission’s investigation into the...
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