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August 2009
Volume 12, Issue 8
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Enhancing Clinical Trials in Ontario
By Robert A. Phillips, Janet Dancey, Karen Arts and Kay Friel
For the past fifty years, we have promised the public that support of basic science will reveal the fundamental defects in disease processes and that this understanding will stimulate remarkable new therapies that exploit this understanding. Despite a plethora of discoveries and suggestions of new targets, the explosion of new therapies has not arrived. In fact, the number of new molecular drugs approved by the FDA has decreased in recent years. |
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Tumour-Specific Markers: The Holy Grail of Cancer Diagnostics
By Amnon Gonenne
Medical literature abounds with examples of the benefits of early cancer detection. Cure rates are always dramatically higher before the tumour has spread and while surgery is still an option. For example, in cervical cancer, detection at the very earliest stages of the disease is associated with a 99 per cent five-year survival rate. |
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Living a dream Dr. Bin Ma, Bioinformatics Solutions Inc.
By Shawn Lawrence
Biologists and pharmaceutical researchers often need to know what proteins are present in biological samples. |
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Positioning China's "Drug Valley" in globalization
By Bill L. Qin
2009 has been a memorable year for all the wrong reasons as the whole world recovers from the most serious recession since the great depression. |
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Connecting across disciplines - agriculture and health opportunities for society
By John Kelly
At a recent meeting entitled Food Meets Function in London, Ontario, health professionals including dieticians, conferred with agriculture producers, researchers, agribusiness and the food industry to relate the connection of functional foods, health and the opportunities to contribute to the Canadian economy. |
