Call for more spending

The No-Destination Ship of Priority-Setting in Healthcare: A Call for More Democracy

In dealing with scarcity of resources within healthcare systems, decision-makers inevitably have to make choices about which services to fund. Setting priorities represents a challenging task that requires systematic, explicit and transparent methodologies with focus on economic efficiency. In addition, the engagement of the general public in the process of decision-making has been regarded as ...

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deriving an average respectively of 44% and 32% of calories from fat. Furthermore, although careful steps were taken to validate the dietary questionnaire, the inevitable imprecision of data derived from questionnaires was evident from the information provided. The best evidence of any causal association would be provided by an intervention study. The United States National Cancer Institute wil...

Bold call for more GM animals

Twelve months ago, Britain’s science academy, the Royal Society, decided to look at the scientific issues surrounding the creation of genetically modified (GM) animals, amid increasing public concern about the raft of potential issues such potential animals raise. A team of senior scientists from academia and industry, working against a backdrop of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) which h...