Use of Register Questioned

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...

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...

Canada's approach to biosimilars questioned.

The use of laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry in the analysis of inks in questioned documents.

Determination of the age of a handwritten or ink printed questioned document can be an important consideration in forensic cases. Most often the age of a document is determined by the chemical behavior of the dyes that make up the ink. Exposure of the dyes to environmental factors such as oxygen and ultraviolet or visible light cause them to degrade. Often this degradation can be correlated to ...