Background: Pharmacy state and territory legislation provides for the regulation of the profession throughout Australia by the pharmacy registering authorities. The Council of Pharmacy Registering Authorities (COPRA) was formed to harmonise these regulatory requirements and facilitate communication among pharmacy registering authorities. COPRA was recently renamed the Australian Pharmacy Counci...

Vaccines that are designed for use only in developing countries face regulatory hurdles that may restrict their use. There are two primary reasons for this: most regulatory authorities are set up to address regulation of products for use only within their jurisdictions and regulatory authorities in developing countries traditionally have been considered weak. Some options for regulatory pathway...

Although the idea of revolving doors evokes dynamic image moving in and out public private sector jobs, most scholars take a static view door phenomenon, looking mainly at entrances, sometimes exits, but almost never both. This is serious oversight given that normative concerns about turn on assumptions how individuals become socialized through their multiple interactions working both sides doo...

After years of research and development, gene therapies are now becoming a commercial reality with several products approved by European regulatory authorities [...].

Abstract We study how banks use “regulatory adjustments” to inflate their regulatory capital ratios and whether this depends on forbearance the part of national authorities. Using 2011 EBA exercise as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that substantially inflated levels via reduction in adjustments (without commensurate increase book equity without bank risk). document substantial heterogeneit...

In May 2005, the TB Vaccine Initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO) Initiative for Vaccine Research convened a working meeting of regulators, investigators, and clinicians from developing and developed countries involved in tuberculosis (TB) vaccine regulation and research (see Text S1 for a list of participants). The purpose of the meeting was to specifi cally discuss the regulatory ...

Perhaps the single biggest distortion to the free enterprise system is when a number of private institutions are deemed by political and regulatory authorities as too systemic to fail. Resources are trapped in corporate structures that have repeatedly proven their incompetence, and further resources are sucked in from the taxpayer as these institutions destroy value. Indeed, these institutions ...