The Promise and Peril of Parallel Governance Structures

The Promise and Peril of Executive Federalism:

The promise and peril of wireless technologies.

45 There is no denying the fact: Wireless, in all its forms, is hot. We’re deluged with news of how new wireless technologies will change the face of healthcare. They will lower costs, increase quality, make up for the coming shortage of doctors and nurses, connect the most rural of hospitals and clinics, move healthcare to the home, eliminate alarm fatigue ... indeed, the list seems endless. T...

The promise and peril of chemical probes.

About a decade ago, academia substantially increased its efforts in chemical biology and drug discovery. These efforts arose in part because of the availability of large numbers of uncharacterized potential drug targets emerging from genome sequencing efforts, from the development and commoditization of new screening technologies and from the possibility of inventing new medicines. Some of thes...

Certain promise and uncertain peril

A Hippocratic oath is required not only for the individual patient but also for the community at large. This thought is provoked by a number of debates in health care on the potential conflict between personal need and the common good. Should high-tech medicine be funded at the expense of preventative and community health? Did the saving of individual lives through antibiotics spawn killer stra...

E-cigarettes: promise or peril?

Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are battery-operated devices that produce a vapour consisting of nicotine (although some are nicotine-free), propylene glycol or glycerol, and flavourings. E-cigarettes were invented in 2003 in China and entered the United States and European markets in 2006 [1]. Hence, it is obvious that no observational data on the long-term health effects of e-cigarettes ...