Clinton Appoints First AIDS Czar

EU appoints Ebola coordinator.

The European Union is stepping up its efforts to tackle the Ebola crisis in west Africa by appointing an overall coordinator, increasing funding, and deploying more medical and support staff to the region. The issue was high on the agenda of the EU leaders’ summit meeting in Brussels on 23 and 24 October. They agreed that, with the first confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease in Europe, protect...

Do We Need a Software Czar?

software have utterly failed. Instead of developing a body of software that’s getting better and better, he says we’ve been creating programs that are brittle, incomprehensible, and nearly impossible to change. Our e orts to solve this problem with open standards and the free ow of information have been misguided. According to him, we need to ap point a software czar, someone vested with absolu...

Clinton and Crime

The Clinton Regulatory Legacy

a 1993 executive order, similar to two Reagan orders that it replaced, requiring most proposed regulations to undergo economic and risk analyses. In 1996, the Office of Management and Budget issued more detailed guidelines on how to conduct those analyses, consistent with the Clinton order. Those measures would have provided an adequate basis for review of agency-proposed rules if the administr...

Biochemia Medica appoints Research integrity editor

Biochemia Medica has just established the Research integrity editor who will act as the Editorial team member responsible for all matters related to the various aspects of scientific misconduct. The major reason for this is the increasing number of various types of scientific misconduct in manuscripts submitted to our Journal. Research integrity editor will: a) strive to continuously raise awar...