In 2006, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved Omnitrope® as a biosimilar recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH), on the basis of comparable quality, safety, and efficacy to the reference medicine (Genotropin®, Pfizer). Data continue to be collected on the long-term efficacy of biosimilar rhGH from several on-going postapproval studies. Particular topics of interest include efficacy in ...

Sitting in my office one afternoon, I received a telephone call from a lawyer many miles away. W ould I consider acting as an ethics expert witness in a civil case raising questions about the ethics of a particular physician’s conduct? The question certainly caught me off guard. I had known several individuals who had acted as ethics experts in litigation and had wondered in passing about the n...

One of the important items of highway information has been, and probably will always be, who should pay how much of the cost of building and maintaining roads and streets. Of similar importance is the question where should we spend the money collected in taxes for highways. Each year the highway officials at every government level have more roads which need to be rebuilt or maintained than avai...

In this paper I will discuss computer evidence. The law enforcement agencies are at the cross road of the new technology. These days, some crimes are committed by using computer and often the offender is located miles away from the victim. That kind of crime (fraud, threat, DoS and other) is very hard to resolve. Investigators have to perform searches on computer. To make sure that the searches...

Why are chemicals that have been banned for over a decade still being detected in the environment? How is it that chemicals and other pollutants such as particulate matter turn up hundreds or even thousands of miles from their sources? These are just two of the questions that a team of American and Canadian scientists hope will be answered using a model they have developed to track pollutants a...

W ant to get oncology care to a small population spread over a large area? Canada is a case in point of a country rising to that challenge. In Canada, with a land mass spanning more than 3.8 million square miles and a population of only 34 million tucked mainly into a few urban centers, telemedicine is just about the only economically feasible option for delivering quality health care to the hu...

We examined alternate explanations for distortions in the subjective representation of North American geography. One explanation, based on physical proximity, predicts that bias in location estimates should increase with the distance from a participant's home city or region. An alternative is that biases arise from combining accurate and inaccurate beliefs about the cities and the superordinate...

Low levels of human medicines (pharmaceuticals) have been detected in many countries in sewage treatment plant (STP) effluents, surface waters, seawaters, groundwater and some drinking waters. For some pharmaceuticals effects on aquatic organisms have been investigated in acute toxicity assays. The chronic toxicity and potential subtle effects are only marginally known, however. Here, we critic...

Forest Research Institute, Inc., a subsidiary of Actavis plc, and Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc., were involved in the study design; collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; and decision to submit these data for presentation. Study was sponsored by Forest Research Institute, Inc., a subsidiary of Actavis plc, and Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Funding for poster development was provide...