CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION (CME) IS A MULTIbillion-dollar industry. In 2006, the CME providers accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) had a total income of $2.38 billion. In 1998, the income was $889 million, and most had come from the registration fees of participants or sponsoring organizations. Since 2003, however, most of the income for CME provid...

Abstract Section 159 of the South African Companies Act 71 2008 regulates corporate whistleblowing in companies registered under act. This article critically evaluates section to ascertain whether it adequately protects and encourages whistleblowers. It compares this with whistleblower provisions Australian Corporations 2001, which have strongly influenced were recently reformed, argues that li...

BACKGROUND EU regulation 726/2004 authorises manufacturers to provide drugs to patients on a temporary basis when marketing authorisation sought centrally for the entire EU is still pending. Individual Member States retain the right to approve and implement such 'compassionate use' programmes which companies will usually provide for free. Nevertheless some companies have opted not to partake in...

Detecting human impacts on the flora, fauna, and summer monsoon of Pleistocene Australia G. H. Miller, J. W. Magee, M. L. Fogel, and M. K. Gagan INSTAAR and Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0450, USA Department of Earth and Marine Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washing...