Regulatory Science Ireland: bridging the information gap on biosimilar medicines

Cross border E-Science and Research Partnership: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Media

  E-Science is a tool that helps scientists to store, interpret, analyze and make a network of their data, and it can play a critical role in different aspects of the scientific goals and research. This commentary, under the topic of Cross Border E-Science and Research Partnership: Bridging the Gap between Science and Media,[1] attempts to shed light on E-Science with emphasis on three importa...

Bridging the gap between science and law: the example of tobacco regulatory science.

PubMed: bridging the information gap.

O n-line literature searches of bibliographic databases such as PubMed (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi) are now integral to the lives of clinicians. A huge amount of knowledge can be gleaned from even a basic PubMed search, while the use of advanced functions can add speed and focus. The 11 million or so abstracts that constitute PubMed undoubtedly make it one of the most significant ba...

Children and tuberculosis medicines: bridging the research gap.

a World Health Organization, 20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Correspondence to: Suzanne Hill (e-mail: [email protected]). doi:10.2471/BLT.08.056804 The incidence and prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) in children are increasing and becoming a particular problem in countries that are also affected by the HIV epidemic.1 Tuberculosis in children has been seen as hard to diagnose but, at lea...

Falsified Medicines—Bridging the Gap between Business and Public Health

The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most regulated industries in the world. While legislation is necessary to protect patients, too much legislation is said to hamper innovation and increase medicine prices. Using qualitative methods such as interviews and document analysis, we investigated the role of private stakeholders in the EU policymakers' decision to initiate legislation to combat...