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Suboxone pharma foibles/FDA does its job well.

Of the 37,485 americans who lost their lives in 2009 to illicit drug use, prescription pain medications caused more deaths than heroin and cocaine combined. Opiates are misused more than any other class of prescription medications. Opiate dependence affects an estimated 1.9 million Americans. Reckitt Benckiser, a British-based company, brought Suboxone (buprenorphine/naloxone) to market in 2002...

Non-programmed versus programmed aging paradigm.

There are two opposite paradigms to explain aging, here precisely defined as "age-related progressive mortality increase, i.e. fitness decline, in the wild". The first maintains that natural selection is unable to maintain fitness as age increases. The second asserts that, in particular ecological conditions, natural selection favors specific mechanisms for limiting the lifespan. The prediction...

Principles and Foibles of Cancer Research—In Regard to Ætiology and Nature

Foibles, follies, and fusion: Web-based collaboration for medical image labeling

Labels that identify specific anatomical and functional structures within medical images are essential to the characterization of the relationship between structure and function in many scientific and clinical studies. Automated methods that allow for high throughput have not yet been developed for all anatomical targets or validated for exceptional anatomies, and manual labeling remains the go...

Programmed Learning

This new journal, which replaces the Bulletin of the Association for Program , Learning, pledges itself to "stress a systematically empirical approach and take the lifle. t; programming is essentially an experimental procedure.'' It also promises "to commit11 to a readership which includes many practising teachers . . ^ The first issue fulfils both of these laudable objectives. It includes info...