Health Law Review articles from September 2006

Health Law Review archives from September 2006

Trends in evidence based medicine for herbal remedies and media coverage.
September 22, 2006... Complementary and Alternative Medicines [CAM] are interventions that are not widely taught in medical schools and are not part of the usual arsenal of treatments and medications recommended and prescribed by physicians and available in...

Media portrayal of conflicts of interest in herbal remedy clinical trials.
September 22, 2006... Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) encompasses a wide variety of treatments, such as herbal remedies, not currently thought to be part of mainstream medicine. Our study focuses on herbal remedies, as their use is significant and...

Public trust and regulatory governance as represented through the media.
September 22, 2006... Media coverage of politics often comments on the decline of the public's trust in government institutions. There is a notion that public trust of government is steadily decreasing. Many factors contribute to this reduced trust, including:...

Functional foods and intellectual property rights: the importance of an integrated approach.(Canada)
September 22, 2006... Functional foods are a relatively recent technology, but this form of innovation is almost daily increasing in marketplace importance. One author has stated that the growing importance of functional foods is due to the fact that, "it is...

A note on the economic rationale for regulating health claims on functional foods and nutraceuticals: the case of Canada.
September 22, 2006... Introduction Regulating health claims continues to be among the highly contentious regulatory challenges involving functional foods, nutraceuticals and, more broadly, natural health products. (1) The potential effects of regulations on...

Deference in the public health context.(Canada)
September 22, 2006... News media report on a daily basis about real or perceived public health threats--including infectious and chronic diseases, environmental pollutants and novel biotechnologies. Governments, public health officials and regulators must address...

Comparing methods of ethical consultation for biotechnology related issues.(Canada)
September 22, 2006... This paper provides a brief summary of the final public consultation event conducted as part of the Democracy, Ethics, and Genomics: Consultation, Deliberation and Modelling [DEG] project at the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics [CAE]...

A web-based instrument to model social norms.
September 22, 2006... Surveys and focus groups are well known methods for ascertaining public perceptions and opinion. The general view is that such tools provide reasonably accurate reflections of public opinion and values, and that the norms employed by people to...

Canadian consumers' preferences for food safety and agricultural environmental safety research summary.
September 22, 2006... This summary reports on a study of Canadian consumers' attitudes and awareness relative to a variety of food and environmental issues associated with Canadian agriculture. Previous research on consumer attitudes and perceptions of various...

Public preferences relating to Plant Molecular Farming research summary.
September 22, 2006... This study focuses on an emerging application of biotechnology--Plant Molecular Farming [PMF]--which proposes to use genetically modified plant crops as production systems to produce commercially valuable biomolecules, pharmaceuticals, or...

Stories from Guatemala and North America: why indigenous beliefs matter in the debate on genetically engineered food.
September 22, 2006... Indigenous peoples do not share a common religion, but almost all share a history of colonialism and Christian missionization. Cultural practices relating to food production and consumption have been central to preserving and transmitting to...

Breaking the trance? Enabling dissenting views on immortalism.
September 22, 2006... From ancient stories, such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, to modern snake oil merchants and science fiction enthusiasts, humans have long dreamt of overcoming death, or at least putting it off for a few years.* (1) Recent breakthroughs in the...

Stem cells, politics and the progress paradigm.(Canada)
September 22, 2006... The analysis of Parliamentary debates provides the opportunity to assess the political context of Canadian legislation, particularly in controversial areas such as stem cell research. Parliamentary debates surrounding the recent Assisted Human...

Nanotechnology - a lot of hype over almost nothing?(Canada)
September 22, 2006... Nanotechnology involves the design, characterization, production and application of structures, devices and systems by controlling shape and size at nanometer scale (one billionth of a meter). The convergence of numerous scientific fields at...