Can Brain Drain Justify Immigration Restrictions?

Brain drain

Professor Emeritus, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK, [email protected] In this issue, three papers discuss the issue of the brain drain: of psychiatrists from Egypt and Nigeria, and of nurses from East Africa. They explore the complexities of professional migration and its impact on the health of populations in source and recipient countries; they a...

BRAIN DRAIN, TALENT Brain Drain, Talent Mobility and Academic Networking

Brain Drain and Brain Waste

When skilled workers migrate, they face the brain waste risk, i.e., they can end up employed as unskilled. We analyze the effects of brain waste on brain drain, resulting from low international transferability of skills. We show that this type of brain waste: (1) reduces education incentives; (2) weakens the chances for a positive self-selection; and (3) decreases the possibility of a brain gai...

Terfenadine therapy: can we justify the risks?

DEPUIS LA MISE EN VENTE DE LA TERFÉNADINE, antihistaminique non sédatif, il y a plus de 20 ans, des rapports sur des cas d’arythmie cardiaque et de mort subite associée à son utilisation ont entraîné son retrait du marché dans certains pays. Néanmoins, la terfénadine est toujours en vente au Canada. Les avantages qu’offre ce médicament pour contrôler les symptômes de la fièvre des foins ne l’em...

The amazing brain drain

The CNS has long been considered an immune-privileged site as tissues grafted into the CNS are not rejected as they are in other tissues (Medawar, 1948; Billingham and Boswell, 1953; Barker and Billingham, 1977). An avalanche of evidence now suggests that this privilege is not absolute, as robust immune responses can occur in the CNS during infections and autoimmune diseases such as multiple sc...