Researchers fight for access to Native American skeleton

Researchers Fight to Keep Implanted Medical Devices Safe from Hackers

Implantable medical devices— such as insulin pumps, cardiac pacemakers, and cardiac defibrillators—have become increasingly popular since being introduced about 50 years ago. In the US alone, 2.6 million people rely on IMDs. An increasing number of today’s devices are equipped with wireless technology enabling, for example, remote checks by healthcare workers. “Patients often receive at-home, b...

Native American technology access: the Gates Foundation in Four Corners

Rx for data-rich, access-poor researchers.

©2015 8872147 Canada Inc. or its licensors CMAJ, August 11, 2015, 187(11) 797 Social insurance information, clinical data, population-based registries, income tax data, surveys — unquestionably Canada is one data-rich nation. Unfortunately for researchers who are interested in national or comparative analyses, much of that data is locked up in provincial research centres. That may change within...

Native and Non-native Teachers’ Pragmatic Criteria for Rating Request Speech Act: The Case of American and Iranian EFL Teachers

Abstract: Over the last few decades, several aspects of pragmatic knowledge and its effects on teaching  and  learning  a  second  language  (L2)  have  been  explored  in  many  studies.  However, among  various  studies,  the  area  of  interlanguage  pragmatic  (ILP)  assessment  is  quite  novel issue and many features of it have remained unnoticed. As ILP assessment has received more atten...

American Indian and Alaska Native Access to Oral Health Care: A Potential Solution.

UNLABELLED American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) experience significant health disparities relative to the general U.S. POPULATION In particular, oral diseases affect the majority of the AI/AN population and their prevalence is significantly greater than observed in other demographic sectors of the U.S. POPULATION The reasons for these disparities are multiple but lack of access to de...