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Article Abstract:

Wikipedia, the 12th most heavily used online encyclopedia on the Internet has a free-for-all editing system. Such a system enables inexperienced scientists and experts to add to or edit topics for the online encyclopedia's coverage of health and medicine. Hence, questions are raised whether such Wikipedia users can be trusted to produce information that can influence life and death decisions.

United States, Services information, Usage, Services, Electronic dictionaries and encyclopedias, Electronic reference books, Electronic reference, Wikipedia (Reference work)

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Tied up in red tape, European trial shut down

Article Abstract:

The European Clinical Trial Directives, which was implemented by the European Union in May 2004, has tied up academic clinical research with redundant paperwork, liability tangles and unending bureaucracy. Some of the problems faced by the researchers due to the directive are discussed.

Europe, Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Government domestic functions, Government regulation, Legal/Government Regulation, Laws, regulations and rules, Clinical trials, European Union, Health policy

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