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...only get worse as the number of trials increases. According to CenterWatch, a patient information group that monitors clinical research, 80,000 clinical trials were conducted in the U.S. last year alone. Adil Shamoo, a bioethicist from the University of Maryland School of Medicine who sits on the National Human Research Protection Advisory Committee, estimates that some 20 million people were enrolled as research subjects last year--three times the number a decade...
Cohen is a Distinguished University Professor of History at University of Maryland with an extensive background in Asian-American relations, having published several works on the subject, including America’s Response to China (2000) and East Asia at the Center (2000). Cohen based his latest work, The Asian American Century, on the Reischauer Lectures he delivered at Harvard in April 2000. In a compact 150 pages, Cohen attempts to breeze through three hefty topics: the history of American intervention in East Asia, the “Americanization” of East Asian culture, and finally...
...Robert Rawley, head of the medical advisory board for the Maryland department of motor vehicles, is studying 2,500 drivers at five-year intervals to see how age affects skills. He says that as vision starts to diminish, drivers are blinded by the halo effect of lights at night and are less able to judge the speed of oncoming cars. As physical changes such as arthritis set in, some older drivers find it more difficult to turn their head to check their blind spot. "With functional testing, we can identify where drivers are having problems...
Rawley, of the Maryland DMV, says his office gives in-depth, two-hour examinations to more than 2,000 older drivers a year for license renewal, but he stresses that age alone doesn't indicate driving problems. "Even people who seem quite frail and have some physical problems might be just fine on the road," he says. "I recently examined a 100-year-old woman who had excellent reflexes and abilities, and I didn't hesitate to renew her license. So age isn't the issue. Impairment is. With some testing, training and adaptations to cars and roads...
...First to bat is pension plans, with a bill sponsored by Reps. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Benjamin Cardin (D-Maryland) set to hit the House floor Thursday. It's no accident that this issue is getting first crack at re-regulation; any issue involving retirees also involves lots of voting seniors. But it's also no cinch that much good will get done...