Conversation with Roy Romanow

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Multiple genetic alterations are common in cancers including those of the breast. The mechanisms leading to these alterations such as point mutations, gene amplifications, deletions and replication error are often associated with frequent and consistent loss of heterozygosity (LOH) or microsatellite instability (MSI). Several cytological and molecular studies have shown high frequency loss of g...

Post Romanow, post Kirby. What's next?

On November 28, the Honourable Roy Romanow tabled his long-awaited report, “The Future of Health Care in Canada,” in the House of Commons. Written following 18 months of serious deliberation, the report includes a range of recommendations aimed at sustaining Canada’s health care system under the principles of the Canada Health Act. While many of the recommendations are consistent with submissio...

Post-Romanow, post-Kirby; has anything changed?

Roy D'Andrade

Event-based prospective memory involves remembering to perform an action in response to a particular future event (e.g., give your colleague a message when you see her). In the typical laboratory paradigm to investigate event-based prospective memory, participants perform a particular action (e.g., press the Z key) when a target word appears on a computer screen during an ongoing task (e.g., a ...

Roy Porter