New laws divide lawmakers

REVIEW : Marc Lange , Laws and Lawmakers : Science , Metaphysics , and the Laws of Nature

Lawmakers 'protected pharmacies'.

IZINDABA 218 Dispensing doctors breathed a sigh of relief on 11 March when the government's dogged legal insistence that they not dispense medicine within 5 km of any pharmacy was overruled on appeal to the Constitutional Court. The victory is all the more significant in that doctors setting up practices in future will also not be affected by the provision which the court declared null and void...

Desperate Doctors and Antitrust Laws: the Best Ways for Lawmakers to Simulate Physician Collective Bargaining

Not only do rising health insurance premiums make us cringe—so do the mistakes of overworked doctors who are trying to make ends meet in the face of a broken healthcare financing system. The unfairness in healthcare financing—that is, the stranglehold that a few powerful insurance companies often wield over doctors’ reimbursements—has prompted some creative solutions, including two recent bills...

How new laws balance

T he 2010 Constitution has made dramatic changes to the Budget process. These open it up to a wider set of actors, particularly giving citizens and MPs a greater role, and fundamentally reducing the traditional, undemocratic and nearly unlimited powers of the Executive. Yet, radical changes in the Budget process can lead to confusion about roles. This must not become an excuse for poor fi nanci...

New laws on landfills.

We present the second version of Melina, a web-based tool for promoter analysis. Melina II shows potential DNA motifs in promoter regions with a combination of several available programs, Consensus, MEME, Gibbs sampler, MDscan and Weeder, as well as several parameter settings. It allows running a maximum of four programs simultaneously, and comparing their results with graphical representations...