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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.
Publication Name: Nature Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1078-8956
Year: 2007
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Tied up in red tape, European trial shut down
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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.
Publication Name: Nature Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1078-8956
Year: 2007
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