Sponsor-investigator-relationship: challenges, recent regulatory developments and future legislative trends

Challenges for Policy Makers and Organizational Leaders: Addressing Trends in Mental Health Inequalities

We typically think of acutely and chronically mentally ill patients as those who belong in psychiatric hospitals and the latter category of patients belonging in “regular” hospitals, but the intersection of physical and mental illness draws attention to important challenges for policy-makers and organizational leaders. This article illuminates some broad trends in the health status of people wi...

Challenges for Using other Person's Commercial Card in the Tax Law System of Iran (With an Attitude to Legislative and Executive Policies)

Given the macroeconomic policies of reducing dependence on oil revenues (as the most important sources of government revenue) and increasing tax revenues, a decisive response to the phenomenon of tax evasion has become the most important economic and political goals of the government. The use of the other person's commercial card as one of the tax evasion techniques is one of the tax crimes tha...

Considering the Future of Pharmaceutical Promotions in Social Media; Comment on “Trouble Spots in Online Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Promotion: A Content Analysis of FDA Warning Letters”

This commentary explores the implications of increased social media marketing by drug manufacturers, based on findings in Hyosun Kim’s article of the major themes in recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warning letters and notices of violation regarding online direct-to-consumer promotions of pharmaceuticals. Kim’s rigorous analysis of FDA letters over a 10-year span highlights a relative ...

Recent Children's Policy and Legislative Developments in Virginia: A Brief History, A Bright Future

Financial Regulation in the United Kingdom:Historical Foundations and Current Practices

Financial markets have been developed rapidly in recent years. New and sophisticated financial tools have been the cause of these developments which need new controlling systems to prevent crisis. Most of industrial economies have reformed regulatory structure of their financial systems. This paper reviews the regulatory developments of UK in this regard and offers new regulations and ...