Letters to the Editor: Click, click: the internet and prescription drugs

Research-agenda Bias: letters to the editor

Click and Vote: Citizenship on the Internet

In the 1998 general election, Minnesota had a voter turnout of 60 percent in a nonpresidential year. While this was also the highest turnout in the nation, a significant number of Minnesotans still did not exercise their right to vote. In fact, 1.4 million eligible voters of the state did not vote and 119 million people did not vote nationwide, a 36 percent participation rate. It is not surpris...

Click, Click

Click click, click click, click click.There arenightswhen this sound still echoes inmyheadas if to tauntme, a sound that Iwill never escapefrom. Itwasthesoundofmyi.v.pumpaseachdripclicked down the chamber into my intravenous line. The clicking that would continue as bag after bag was replaced during the 100 hospital days and many months spent in the infusion center. Some days, I felt the clicks...

Letters Letter to the Editor

The good name of TEX One of the many wonderful things about TEX is that its behaviour is essentially the same, no matter where it runs. TEX is a fixed point, identical on all machines. The same goes for METAFONT and the Computer Modern fonts. The author of TEX, Donald Knuth, has made it perfectly clear that he does not object to anyone revising TEX(or METAFONT) just as long as the resulting pro...

Sale of prescription drugs over the Internet.

Online drugstores represent one of the hottest categories in electronic commerce. The Internet offers great promise in expanding access to prescription drugs for the disabled, the elderly, and people living in rural areas. But with this promise comes the danger of eliminating the safeguards that protect consumers from inappropriate use of medications and adverse drug events. This Issue Brief hi...