Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Three snippets of information selected from today's news.
Snippet I
Clinical trials are often controversial when they take place in developing countries where there is a risk that participants do not always understand what they are taking part in or where there is a danger that once the trial is over, they ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
The most controversial, if not the only controversial idea put forward by E. Pisani in her book The Wisdom of Whores, is what she sees as the next logical step after opt-out testing for HIV: requiring “people who are getting free AIDS drug to show up for prevention service, too.” ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
The front page of The Guardian online today runs a story about Chris Parry, the chief executive of the Independent Schools Council next to a series of articles about animal research and in particular the use of monkeys and apes in experiments aiming at understanding the basic neural architecture of ...
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