CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne
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Medical research and practice have always posed many ethical dilemmas for scientists and physicians, but technologic advances mean that the questions are becoming even more difficult. That is why an exhibit, A Question of Truth, that is being prepared at Toronto's Ontario Science Centre is so timely. It examines the biases and political climates in which science operates, as well as the relative subjectivity of truth, knowledge and reality.
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Dr. Kenneth Rothman, a critic of the use of placebos in clinical trials, recently discussed the issue with Health Canada employees. Some researchers insist this is not a black-and-white issue, and that in some cases patients who receive a placebo are the lucky ones.
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Biography Historical Article
Seventy-five years later, insulin remains Canada's major medical-research coup.
The world observes the 75th anniversary of the landmark discovery of insulin this year, a medical miracle that bears a large "made-in-Canada" stamp. CMAJ played a part in this story by publishing preliminary results of the first clinical trial on a human in March 1922. November is Diabetes Month, and to mark World Diabetes Day on Nov. 14 CMAJ once again heralds the accomplishment of the four discoverers of insulin.