Governments, international agencies and corporations are increasingly investing in traditional herbal medicine research. Yet little literature addresses ethical challenges in this research. In this paper, we apply concepts in a comprehensive ethical framework for clinical research to international traditional herbal medicine research. We examine in detail three key, underappreciated dimensions ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the adequacy and quality of information available in package directions of basic medicines commercialized in Brazil, according to both the specialized technical and scientific literature and the current regulations on the subject. METHODS One hundred and sixty-eight medication directions of medicines containing forty-one specific drugs selected from the Brazilian National ...

Contracts between Legal Persons Contract law and the economics of contract have, for the most part, developed independently of each other. In this essay, we briefly review the notion of a contract from the perspective of lawyer, and then use this framework to organize the economics literature on contract. The title, Contracts between Legal Persons, limits the review to that part of contract law...

An urban regeneration health impact assessment (HIA) was conducted collaboratively with three major government agencies and the local community in 2005 and 2006 to identify health impacts of a major land use strategy outlined in the consultant's report for the Greater Granville Regeneration Plan - Stage 1 (Sydney: Hassall Pty Limited, 2005). Health impacts were identified and agreed recommendat...

We thank Dr. Barnett for his kind comments (1). We agree that a major barrier to instituting a modified lottery is political, since government agencies are reluctant to acknowledge that peer review is unable to reliably stratify applications. It is counterintuitive that experts are little better than a random selection process at predicting the future success of proposals, even though the data ...

We analyse 214 cases worldwide where non-governmental organisations (NGOs) use ecotourism for conservation. Other stakeholders in these initiatives include local communities, the private sector, and government agencies. Stakeholder relationships determine NGO roles and project management structures and governance. We classified cases into 10 structural categories based on the initiating stakeho...

The history of Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) dates back to 1895 when the Sanitary Commission was founded during the Chosun Dynasty. It changed to Korea National Institute of Health and then to KCDC as it is today. With the relocation to the city of Osong, the heartland of the Republic of Korea in 2010, KCDC is a part of the Osong Technopolis. The first bio-cluster in K...

This study presents an overview of modern field experiments and their usage in economics. Our discussion focuses on three distinct periods of field experimentation that have influenced the economics literature. The first might well be thought of as the dawn of ‘‘field’’ experimentation: the work of Neyman and Fisher, who laid the experimental foundation in the 1920s and 1930s by conceptualizing...

COnstruction and Real Estate NETwork (CORENET) is the flagship information technology (IT) project undertaken collaborativel y by various government agencies of Singapore to improve the productivity and performance of the construction and real estate sectors. It is a comprehensiv e network system consisting of a series of IT systems and services that allows seamless and expedient exchange of in...

People who are unemployed and who lack the resources to buy adequate food, shelter, or basic health care services face an endless struggle to survive. It is frequently a degrading and humiliating experience. The elderly homeless, who are often frail and sick, are particularly disadvantaged in this struggle. Yet resources are often available to welfare providers to care for the aged homeless. Al...