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2014-11-14
Shelley, Jacob, Alfonso, Victor, Caulfield, Timothy, Bubela, tania
Nutrigenomics has been called the “next frontier in the postgenomic era.” Over the past few years this emerging area has received a considerable amount of attention, both in the popular press and from the scientific community. Viewed as one of the more promising applications of genomics and as...
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2014-11-12
Bubela, Tania, Taylor, Benjamin
In 2004, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium published its scientific description of the finished human genome sequence containing 20,000 to 25,000 protein-coding genes. The Human Genome Project (HGP), through political rhetoric and publicity, was portrayed as an end in itself,...
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Ocular Gene Transfer in the Spotlight: Implications of Newspaper Content for Clinical Communications
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Bubela, Tania, Benjaminy, Shelly
Background Ocular gene transfer clinical trials are raising hopes for blindness treatments and attracting media attention. News media provide an accessible health information source for patients and the public, but are often criticized for overemphasizing benefits and underplaying risks of novel...
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2014-11-12
Caulfield, Timothy, Bubela, Tania, Fernando, Kanchana
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: unhappiness with government performance, negativity of...
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Reflections on the Cost of "Low-Cost" Whole Genome Sequencing: Framing the Health Policy Debate
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Miller, Fiona A., Hogarth, Stuart, Evans, Jim, McCabe, Christopher, Pullman, Daryl, Joly, Yann, Szego, Michael J., Bubela, Tania, Fishman, Jennifer, Sankar, Pamela, Cook-Deegan, Robert, Biesecker, Barbara, Ravitsky, Vardit, Borry, Pascal, K. Cho, Mildred, Ungar, Wendy, J., Ossorio, Pilar, Kato, Kazuto, Wilson, Brenda, McGuire, Amy, Soo-Jin Lee, Sandra, Caulfield, Timothy, Rothenberg, Karen, Rousseau, Francois, Etchegary, Holly, Carroll, June C.
The cost of whole genome sequencing is dropping rapidly. There has been a great deal of enthusiasm about the potential for this technological advance to transform clinical care. Given the interest and significant investment in genomics, this seems an ideal time to consider what the evidence tells...
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Science Communication in Transition: Genomics Hype, Public Engagement, Education and Commercialization Pressures
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This essay reports on the final session of a 2-day workshop entitled ‘Genetic Diversity and Science Communication’, hosted by the CIHR Institute of Genetics in Toronto, April 2006. The first speaker, Timothy Caulfield, introduced the intersecting communities that promulgate a ‘cycle of hype’ of...
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2014-10-29
Caulfield, Timothy, Rachul, Christen, Zarzeczny, Amy, Bubela, Tania
The interest and controversy generated by stem cell research over the past decade has raised hopes for scientific breakthroughs and debates regarding the limits of ethical research. In particular, the debate surrounding the moral status of the embryo has received considerable attention in...
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2014-11-12
Bubela, Tania, DeBow, Suzanne, Caulfield, Timothy
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 Reproduction Act,1 which lasted nearly a decade, were...
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2006
Caulfield, Timothy, Bubela, Tania, Boon, Heather
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 hospitals. CAM is big business ($30 billion in the US) with...
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Value-Engineered Translation for Regenerative Medicine: Meeting the Needs of Health Systems
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McCabe, Christopher, Bubela, Tania
Despite high expectations of economic returns, large investments in regenerative medicine technology have yet to materialize, partly due to a lack of proven business and investment models, regulatory hurdles, and a greater focus on cost-effectiveness for reimbursement decisions by payors....