IMPORTANCE It is unclear how medical journals address authors' financial and non-financial conflict of interest (COI). OBJECTIVE To assess the policies of clinical journals for disclosure of financial and non-financial COI. METHODS Cross sectional study that included both review of public documents as well as a simulation of a manuscript submission for the National Library of Medicine's "co...

OBJECTIVE To survey the scope of current written institutional policies for types of surgical pathology specimens exempt from submission to the laboratory and those that may be examined by gross inspection only. DESIGN AND SETTING In the first quarter of 1997, a total of 413 voluntary participant institutions enrolled in the College of American Pathologists Q-Probes quality improvement progra...

The close relationship between scientific expertise and regulatory policy in certain controversial and public areas has prompted commentators to suggest the concept of ‘regulatory science’. However, definition is generally constrained either to the concerns of regulatory science or to its context. This paper proposes an approach to regulatory science which is both empirically-based and allows a...

INTRODUCTION................................................................................... 365 I. TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATORY POLITICS, POLICY, AND FEDERALISM ..................................................... 366 II. TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATION COMPARED TO OTHER INDUSTRIES.................................................................. 368 III. ADDRESSING THE DACA PROPOSALS ........

in this paper, we ask “can proximity to towns reduces poverty in rural areas?” for this study we have mapped all the villages in orissa. the study is based on small area poverty estimation methodology as well as the secondary data covering 47,395 villages and 109 towns. our main findings are (i) there is a relationship between the distance to nearest town and rural poverty and (ii) poverty leve...

Our analysis of measures to improve the environmental policy-making process strongly suggests that obtaining meaningful changes in regulatory outcomes demands far greater systemic change than is contemplated either by current " reinvention " programs or by the proposals of critics of current regulatory approaches. We argue that current proposals for changing regulatory policy-making process are...

This brief commentary will argue that whether hormesis is considered in regulatory risk assessment is a matter less of science than of science policy. I will first discuss the distinction between science and science policy and their roles in regulatory risk assessment. Then I will focus on factors that influence science policy, especially as it relates to the conduct of risk assessments to info...

This paper examines the development of innovation in human tissue technologies as a form of regenerative medicine, firstly by applying 'pollution ideas' to contemporary trends in its risk regulation and to the processes of regulatory policy formation, and secondly by analysing the classificatory processes deployed in regulatory policy. The analysis draws upon data from fieldwork and documentary...

In Pakistan traditional medicines has been a strong part of our cultural heritage and has played a significant role in providing health care to a large portion of the population especially Tibb-e-unani and Homoeopathy. Efforts are made for the development of comprehensive policy and strategies for utilization of traditional medicine in the mainframe health care system which includes education, ...

One of the central features of the 'rise' of the regulatory state has been the shift of particular policy functions to non-majoritarian institutions. Issues of accountability and transparency have therefore moved to the foreground of regulatory debates, both in the applied and academic public policy literature. This paper argues that a narrow debate on parliamentary oversight is too limited and...