G8 climate target questioned

Asbestos findings questioned.

The relationship between autocrine interferon (IFN) production and the expression of class I Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) membrane glycoproteins in vitro was investigated in a panel of murine transformed cells of nonhaemopoietic origin. The panel included 11 cell lines of H-2Kb haplotype derived from fibrosarcomas, carcinomas and melanoma, and from transformed fibroblasts. IFN activit...

Key Alzheimer's findings questioned.

When Stephen Strittmatter discovered an unexpected link between key proteins in two devastating brain maladies — Alzheimer’s disease and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) — researchers in the field agreed that he was on to something big. But a year on, conflicting results, including findings published in Nature this month, have clouded that rosy picture and highlight the challenge faced by resear...

Value of e-prescribing questioned.

© 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors CMAJ, October 4, 2011, 183(14) 1575 Decades after Canada’s 33 700 pharmacists began buying computers in the expectation that provincial health systems would connect them with physicians through electronic prescription networks, such information sharing may be inching toward becoming a reality. Although skeptics say the primary rationale for s...

Canada's approach to biosimilars questioned.

Climate change fears mount over target disappointments

A US-led six-nation pact to develop clean energy technologies and combat global warming was launched last month with its members denying it was designed to undermine the Kyoto protocol on emission reductions. But without targets for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, many researchers were disappointed. And the announcement came as new evidence suggests several species of north Atlantic bir...