Pioneer Lawmakers Association

Lawmakers 'protected pharmacies'.

IZINDABA 218 Dispensing doctors breathed a sigh of relief on 11 March when the government's dogged legal insistence that they not dispense medicine within 5 km of any pharmacy was overruled on appeal to the Constitutional Court. The victory is all the more significant in that doctors setting up practices in future will also not be affected by the provision which the court declared null and void...

The Impact of Twitter on Lawmakers’ Decisions

Organizations have used social media extensively to engage customers, but little is known if such engagement truly influences organizations’ decisions to make them closer to their customers. This paper studies this question in a unique context – the impact of U.S. Representatives’ Twitter engagement on their voting behavior in The Congress. In particular, we consider whether the adoption and fr...

Parnham—A Pioneer Venture

A parasite pioneer

The concept that infectious biological agents were responsible for many diseases was controversial in the midnineteenth century. But key experiments by famed scientists such as Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch eventually won over sceptics. However, some other researchers, equally convinced by this notion, and who also carried our convincing experiments in its support at the same time, have failed ...

John Laragh: scientific pioneer.

Although I did not have the privilege of working with John Laragh in the laboratory or in the clinic, his visionary research has inspired me and many others interested in the problem of hypertension. John led the charge that opened up the modern phase of hypertension management in which physicians began to recognize the importance of tailoring therapy to the needs of the individual patient. He ...