Rifkin wins battle over NIH growth trials

Coors Wins Battle Over Beer Labels

Establishing the Irish Critical Care Trials Group: 'who wins in battle makes many calculations before the battle is fought'

Quality research, requiring large numbers of participants, in the intensive care unit (ICU) population requires multicentre collaboration. Although logistically challenging, this methodology reduces the influence of individual units and has greater validity and broader relevance to patients and practitioners. The nascent Irish Critical Care Trials Group opens additional such opportunities. In t...

Battle over GM foods

‘Clinton attacks Europe for moving too slowly over GM safety’ said The Independent on 24 July. ‘Blair stands by Clinton in defence of GM food’ said The Daily Telegraph. Marking the end of the G8 summit in Okinawa, these and other headlines were not necessarily contradictory. They were certainly very varied. Do they, perhaps, reflect a shift towards less strident certainty than that which has ch...

The battle over workers' compensation.

Faced with lower profits and rapidly increasing premium costs in the 1980s, insurers and employer organizations cleverly parlayed the public perception of worker fraud and abuse in the workers' compensation system (that they helped to create) into massive legislative changes. Over the last decade, state legislators and governors, Republican and Democrat alike, have jumped on this bandwagon, one...

The Battle of Taste Buds and Environmental Convictions : Which One Wins ?

Much has been said about ecolabeling in the last few years, with several studies investigating hypothetical consumer demand for ecolabeled seafood products, where the label indicates no overfishing of the stocks. Most studies have focused on consumers choosing between labeled and unlabeled products of the same species. In a recent survey done in the US, consumers were asked to trade-off amongst...