The Prescription Drug User Fee Act: Cause for Concern?

Prescription Drug User Fee Act Patient-Focused Drug Development Initiative Commentary

We are submitting commentary on behalf of Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered, also known as FORCE, which represents nearly a million people living with a BRCA genetic mutation in the U.S. We are also representing populations affected by Lynch Syndrome, Cowden Syndrome, Fanconi Anemia, Ataxia Telangiectasia, Li Fraumeni, and other hereditary cancer communities. Altogether, it is estimated that ...

The Affordable Prescription Drugs Act: a solution for today's high prescription drug prices.

A cause for concern?

J ust to add to the recent concern over heading soccer balls and the risk of chronic brain injury, another study has just appeared that raises new fears. In a paper published in Brain, Chio and his colleagues from Italy reported that there was an increased risk of developing motor neurone disease (MND) amongst Italian soccer players. In this retrospective cohort study, there were five diagnosed...

Plagiarism: a cause for concern

It is very important that authors should present and discuss scientific data in an accurate, ethical and honest way. [1] Plagiarism is one of the very important problems which have been plaguing literature, art and science since times immemorial. According to Oxford dictionary of literary terms, 'plagiarism' is "the theft of ideas or of written passages or works, where these are passed off as o...

Casualty--a cause for concern.

To those familiar with the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital it may at first seem a little incongruous that a hospital whose past reputation was founded on 'cold orthopaedics' should concern itself with problems of trauma and the casualty department. The reason is not because we are concerned about the little trauma we receive from the surrounding countryside but because all of t...