The objective of this jurisdictional review is to provide summary information pertaining to the regulation of chiropractors in Canadian provinces and territories on the topic of informed consent. Our review shows that two provinces have legislated for all healthcare professions: Ontario and Prince Edward Island. Two chiropractic regulatory bodies (New Brunswick and, Newfoundland and Labrador) h...

Ubiquitous computing technologies are defining an emerging cultural fabric that is becoming interwoven into everyday life and giving form to ‘digital culture’, through which human meaning and communication derives from the potentials of such technologies. As the pervasive and ambient computing agendas move forward, the possible augmentation of both physical space and the human body with small l...

Up to the present day we have had little opportunity of studying Mycobacterium leprae outside the human body. It is true that we can make surmises from the analogies of other mycobacteria, such as those of rat leprosy or of the various forms of tuberculosis; but the differences between these látter and human leprosy are almost as striking as the resemblances , and too much must not be based upo...

INTRODUCTION There are increasing concerns over the presence and implications of pharmaceutical agents in water. In 2002, California banned pharmaceutical use of lindane because of concerns about water quality, as lindane treatment for head lice and scabies was found to be a significant factor adversely affecting wastewater quality. OBJECTIVES In this article we describe the effects the ban h...

“The social distance built into current ways of looking at the human body — the view of an objective scientist looking at another bodily object that is clearly separate and distinct — will be expanded to include a new type of social connectedness, where two human beings will be able to share their commonly felt experiences at their social membrane. In the new clinic, immunization from the emoti...

BACKGROUND Previous studies limited to specific drugs or journal types have shown an association between the source of funding of research and the published results. OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to determine the association between source of support of research and published outcomes of randomized controlled drug trials in general interest medical journals. METHODS Randomized ...

BACKGROUND Effective and enforceable national regulations describing the manufacture and (re)packaging, export and import, distribution and storage, supply and sale, information and pharmaco-vigilance of medicines are required to consistently ensure optimal patient benefit. Expansion of pharmaceutical industries in many countries with advancement in transport technologies facilitated not only t...

In the traditional model of the law and economics of torts, harm accrues proportional to use. This has the remarkable implication for products-generated torts that product performance concerns (e.g., issues of care and of liability for harm) can be considered independently of market performance concerns (e.g., market structure and competition). Moreover, the classical analysis finds that all li...

The aim of this work was to evaluate low-cost and easy-to-operate engineering solutions that can be added as a polishing step to small wastewater treatment plants to reduce the micropollutant load to water bodies. The proposed design combines a sand filter/constructed wetland with additional and more advanced treatment technologies (UV degradation, enhanced adsorption to the solid phase, e.g., ...

Industry-sponsored studies have such a bad reputation that some journals require an additional statistical analysis by an independent statistician. This commentary discusses some of the reasons why academic people tend to believe that "academic" science is better than industry-driven science. Most likely, when it comes to publications, the risk of fraud exists in both worlds as the pressure to ...