A relatively small additional investment could end up with a big payout for the investor and the region. One of my fantasies is to own Celtic Football Club, a storied club based in Glasgow. So I can’t find it in me to outright criticize Sheikh Mansour ...
Not for nothing is micronutrient malnutrition known as the “hidden hunger.” At my school dining hall in 1970s Scotland, tapioca was sometimes served as pudding. It has since fallen out of favor as a culinary treat, and I can’t say I’m surprised. ...
Science won’t feature extensively in talks over the coming weeks, but it is central to effectively rehabilitate the healthcare system. It’s a daunting task, but the ailing beast that is the US healthcare system must be brought to heel. Its feverish ...
At the end of the exclusion period, researchers should be able to participate again as full members of the scientific community. But they can't. The Office of Research Integrity (ORI), part of the US Public Health Service (PHS), serves an indispensible ...
It was a stealth marketing campaign to Australian doctors under the guise of a regular journal. Merck and Elsevier, two life sciences giants, are taking different tacks in responding to a crisis that arose from an ill-judged publishing collaboration. ...
The age-old problem of attribution in science—in other words, the practice of citation—has resurfaced with a vengeance in a couple of recent fracases. What's new about these cases is that they're being played out online in full gory detail and in real ...
I sit on the advisory board of an art gallery that exhibits contemporary artists who engage with science and technology. Last December, the curator had some exciting news in his end-of-year email: His gallery was proposing to join forces with a ...
The life sciences are ubiquitous. Their application in medicine (known in some quarters as red biotechnology), agriculture (green biotech) and industrial processes (white biotech) is indispensible and lauded. In this issue we look at a no less ...
Healthcare spending in the United States is unsustainable. It topped $2.3 trillion in 2007—that's $7,600 for every man, woman and child. That wouldn't be quite so hard to swallow if the service was excellent, but it's spotty, especially for the 47 ...
Recently, at a party in Oslo for the life sciences community, I was asked to make a few remarks, and decided to blurt out what had come into my head about the trip. Which was given what I'd grasped about the "Norwegian character," the country would ...
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