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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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Technology Assessment and Resource Allocation for Predictive Genetic Testing: A Study of the Perspectives of Canadian Health Care Providers
Download2009-01-01
Adair, Alethea, Hyde-Lay, Robyn, Einsiedel, Edna, Caulfield, Timothy
With a growing number of genetic tests becoming available to the health and consumer markets, genetic health care providers in Canada are faced with the challenge of developing robust decision rules or guidelines to allocate a finite number of public resources. The objective of this study was to...
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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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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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2008-01-01
Caulfield, Timothy, McGuire, Amy L., Cho, Mildred, Buchanan, Janet A., Burgess, Michael M., Danilczyk, Ursula, Diaz, Christina M., Fryer-Edwards, Kelly, Green, Shane K., Hodosh, Marc A., Juengst, Eric T., Kaye, Jane, Kedes, Laurence, Knoppers, Bartha M., Lemmens, Trudo, Meslin, Eric M., Murphy, Juli, Nussbaum, Robert L., Otlowski, Margaret, Pullman, Daryl, Ray, Peter N., Sugarman, Jeremy, Timmons, Michael
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Reflections on the Cost of "Low-Cost" Whole Genome Sequencing: Framing the Health Policy Debate
Download2014-10-24
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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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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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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2014-11-14
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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2014-11-14
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...