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Ill-funded public good

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Canada risks losing its status as an important centre for clinical trials, and patients could end up receiving well intentioned, but lesser care
Published on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. Last updated on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010.

…academic studies ask some of the best questions, because the researchers are simply trying to improve patient care; they are not selling a drug or a surgery or a treatment. Is one drug better than another? What are the long-term effects of a drug? Can a cancer therapy be compressed with the same good outcomes?
… an affirmative answer could spell a dramatic shift in cancer treatment.

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Canada’s undervalued universities


Monday, February 8th, 2010

TheGlobeandMail.com – globecampus.ca/blogs
February 5, 2010. Alex Usher

…there is a fundamental mismatch between academics’ definition of quality and the reasons that governments invest in higher education.
And this mismatch has a lot to do with governments’ continual frustration in trying to understand what it is, exactly, that institutions do with all that public money they’re given.

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