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Innovations in Indigenous Primary Healthcare Models
2021-03-21
Primary health care (PHC) is essential for promoting health and wellness and reducing health inequities. PHC plays an important role in life expectancy, chronic disease management, community health, maternal and child health, and many other aspects of health and wellness. Indigenous populations...
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Is Belief Larger than Fact: Expectations, Optimism and Reality for Translational Stem Cell Research
Download2014-10-24
Atkins, Harold, D Li, Matthew, Bubela, Tania, Bieber, Mark, Hafez, Mohamed
Background Stem cell (SC) therapies hold remarkable promise for many diseases, but there is a significant gulf between public expectations and the reality of progress toward clinical application. Public expectations are fueled by stakeholder arguments for research and public funding, coupled with...
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Knowledge Management and the Contextualisation of Intellectual Property Rights in Innovation Systems
Download2014-10-29
Intellectual property rights play a central role in biotechnology innovation. Patents, in particular, preoccupy research funding agencies, venture capitalists and governments, despite the fact that the value of patents is disputed and their impact continues to foster controversy. Perhaps more...
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Legal Agreements and the Governance of Research Commons: Lessons from Materials Sharing in Mouse Genomics
Download2014-10-24
Omics research infrastructure such as databases and bio-repositories requires effective governance to support pre-competitive research. Governance includes the use of legal agreements, such as Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs). We analyze the use of such agreements in the mouse research...
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Lost in Translation: The Canadian Access to Medicines Regime from Transnational Activism to Domestic Implementation
Download2014-11-14
Bubela, Tania, Morin, Jean-Frederic
Canada was the first country to implement the WTO Decision of August 30, 2003, authorizing the export of generic drugs manufactured under a compulsory license to developing countries in response to a proposal brought forward by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that now claim dissatisfaction...
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2014-11-14
Koper, Megan, Boon, Heather, Bubela, Tania, Caulfield, Timothy
Due to the growing industry support of biomedical research, studies are increasingly scrutinized because of conflicts of interest of investigators and concerns about inaccurate reporting of study results by the popular media. The Association of American Medical Colleges has defined conflict of...
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2014-11-12
Bubela, Tania, Caulfield, Timothy, Koper, Megan, Boon, Heather
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 increasing. We ask whether media coverage of conflicts of...
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2014-11-14
Bubela, Tania, Caulfield, Timothy
Many commentators have expressed concern regarding the sensationalistic reporting of biomedical stories by the popular press. It has been suggested that inaccurate or exaggerated reporting can have an adverse impact on public understanding, creating unwarranted hope or fears, and the development...
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2022-06-27
Objectives:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the most problematic opportunistic pathogens. It is resistant to many currently used antibiotics, making it difficult to treat, and resistance may transfer to other P. aeruginosa strains. The organism can acquire resistance through horizontal gene...
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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...