New drugs and the NHS: square pegs and a round hole

Square Pegs and Round Holes

This article explores the relationship between the social construction of risk, uncertainty and evaluation in the field of development cooperation. It explores the assumption that risk and uncertainty are unusually high in development cooperation. Perceptions of risk and uncertainty are cultural constructs. Several authors have identified perceptions of uncertainty as one of the most important ...

Square Pegs in a Round Hole: SEC Regulation of Online Peer-to-Peer Lending and the CFPB Alternative

A square peg in a round hole.

My fear is that the hopes that I have for my practice, and the beliefs I have come to hold regarding how I would like to teach will be worn down by the myriad realities and pressures I am likely to experience as a beginning teacher. In many ways I suspect that the teaching tools with which I have been equipped by my pre-service training, based largely on constructivist principles, may ill-prepa...

Regulating Innovative Medicine: Fitting Square Pegs in round Holes

Increasingly, innovative medical products are creating a quandary for the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) because they often transcend the FDA’s traditional categorical approach to regulating medical products. In a recent attempt to simplify this process, the FDA has proposed a new rule for regulating "combination products." This iBrief discusses the FDA’s current approach and analyzes the...

Square peg in a round hole.