A golden age of asthma research

Golden age of family medicine research.

T his month marks the 20th anniversary of the Section of Researchers (SOR) of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and an opportunity for real celebration. During these 20 years the family medicine research enterprise in Canada has grown enormously and arguably is now coming of age. Before the 1990s family medicine research was mainly a cottage industry, with a handful of professional res...

Editorial: the golden age of consumer research

Twentieth century retail innovator John Wanamaker lamented that ‘‘Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.’’ This all changed radically in the opening years of the twenty first century when search giant Google applied Garfield’s [1] bibliometric tools to advertising. Google takes cues from keywords input to its core search engine, and translates t...

The golden age of biomedical research.

I n 1492, Columbus set sail on a voyage to reach the riches of the East and instead found a new world. His was not an isolated act of discovery but part of the Golden Age of Exploration —a multinational effort to find new lands, new wealth, and new trade routes. Prince Henry the Navigator, Magellan, Cabot, Bering, and many others from the major European powers used large government subsidies to...

A golden age of discovery.

Original ideas are needed in developing new interventions for psychosis, and computer-assisted therapy for auditory hallucinations is one such novel approach. As with any early-phase development, it will require further refinement and evaluation. There are now a range of ongoing studies into different intervention strategies and these promise to enhance the therapeutic potency of clinical psych...

Golden Rules for a Golden Age of Gas