A regulatory science viewpoint on botanical–drug interactions

One Viewpoint on Computational Science CSE : Content and Product

♦ C omputing has become an essential tool of science and engineering. In tribute to those who brought about this state of affairs it is worth remembering that even as recently as the early 1980s, there was suspicion—sometimes bordering on ridicule—of the value of " the study of computing and computers " or of the importance of computers in scientific research and instruction. 1,2 Even when the ...

Decision Making: a Computer-science and Information-technology Viewpoint

We address the phenomenon of decision making from the viewpoint of computer science and information technology. The basic question from this viewpoint is: what can the computer offer to decision makers and how it can support their work? Therefore, the main issue is to provide support to people who make complex decisions. In this article, we first present the taxonomy of disciplines that are con...

Advancing regulatory science, advancing regulatory practice

In an Editorial of Science in 2011, Margaret A. Hamburg, the then Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration highlighted that a strong field of regulatory science is required to develop new tools, standards and approaches that efficiently and consistently assess the safety, efficacy and performance of products, and that this field has long been underappreciated and underfunded.1 During...

Boundaries of Regulatory Science

Regulatory Science- towards a Sociological Framework-’

The close relationship between scientific expertise and regulatory policy in certain controversial and public areas has prompted commentators to suggest the concept of ‘regulatory science’. However, definition is generally constrained either to the concerns of regulatory science or to its context. This paper proposes an approach to regulatory science which is both empirically-based and allows a...