A SOUTHERNER ARRESTED IN CANADA

Universal Pharmacare in Canada: A Prescription for Equity in Healthcare

Despite progressive universal drug coverage and pharmaceutical policies found in other countries, Canada remains the only developed nation with a publicly funded healthcare system that does not include universal coverage for prescription drugs. In the absence of a national pharmacare plan, a province may choose to cover a specific sub-population for certain drugs. Altho...

Legalizing Marijuana in Canada — A Double-Edged Sword: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Arrested and temporarily arrested states in a protein-polymer mixture studied by USAXS and VSANS.

We investigate the transition of the phase separation kinetics from a complete to an arrested liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) in mixtures of bovine γ-globulin with polyethylene glycol (PEG). The solutions feature LLPS with upper critical solution temperature phase behavior. At higher PEG concentrations or low temperatures, non-equilibrium, gel-like states are found. The kinetics is follow...

National Pharmacare in Canada: Equality or Equity, Accessibility or Affordability; Comment on “Universal Pharmacare in Canada: A Prescription for Equity in Healthcare”

Canada’s federal government intends to take steps to implement national pharmacare so that all Canadians have prescription drug coverage they need at an affordable price. Relatively limited funds have so far been pledged to support national pharmacare, which raises the question: what kind of program is envisioned? Since the government has already introduced regulations intended to reduce new dr...

Neurodegeneration: A Case of Arrested Development?

The neurodegenerative disease Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) is a polyglutamine expansion disorder characterized by the death of Purkinje neurons in the brain. In this issue, Serra et al. (2006) implicate the impaired function of the orphan nuclear receptor RORalpha in SCA1 pathogenesis. Their intriguing results suggest that derailing a transcription program during embryonic development m...