One of the most underrated social dangers of the AIDS pandemic in developing countries is that the risk currently inherent in breastfeeding may cause it to go ‘out of fashion’, even among HIV-negative mothers. Professor Jerry Coovadia From questionnaires sent out, her province had identified 1 300 health care workers who potentially need dispensing licences but this number was being ‘carefully ...

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The radiofrequency spectrum is a valuable national economic resource. Efficient use of this resource is important to national economic well-being. National administrations have traditionally relied on a centrally planned model to manage spectrum. This has involved planning the use for parts of the spectrum at a national level, consistent with international conventions, and then issuing device s...

based on clinical trials or “real world” trials (or both), but under the current policy, patients receiving a prescription for a new drug will be unaware of the full scope of the evidence. If it consists solely of data from randomized clinical trials, then patients ought to be informed that there may be limitations in detecting unmeasured or rare adverse outcomes that might appear later in a re...

We analysed the origins of 281 licence agreements completed by NIH between 2001 and 2004. The origin of these licences was distributed among three sources that were classified as Inventor Contact (38 per cent), Marketing (34 per cent) and Public Information (28 per cent). Detailed analyses showed that while inventors played a more prominent role in securing leads for biological material licence...

GENETICALLY modified (GM) sugarcane, as with any other genetically modified organism (GMO), must be approved by regulatory authorities before it can be released in Australia. Growing GMOs is regulated by the Gene Technology Regulator under the Gene Technology Act 2000. The object of the Act is ‘to protect the health and safety of people, and to protect the environment, by identifying risks pose...

BACKGROUND The availability of firearms in homes and at aggregate levels is a risk factor for suicide and homicide. One method of reducing access to suicidal means is the restriction of firearm availability through more stringent legislation. AIMS To evaluate the impact of firearm legislation reform on firearm suicides and homicides as well as on the availability of firearms in Austria. MET...