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While a law designed to thwart counterfeit medicines lurches into full force, fake pills keep circulating
Source: STAT News As far as Shane Jerominski was concerned, the many bottles of a widely used HIV medicine that he dispensed at his pharmacy nearly two years ago appeared just fine.
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Nature addresses helicopter research and ethics dumping
Source: Nature New framework aims to improve inclusion and ethics in global research collaborations amid wider efforts to end exploitative practices.
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Wastewater surveillance provides crucial COVID data, but also carries privacy concerns: scientists
Source: CBC Wastewater surveillance has gone from niche science to mainstream public health tool over the course of the pandemic. But some experts caution that the data collected could lead to privacy concerns.
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Common, Costly, Preventable? NSF OIG Finds Pearls in Review of 10 Years of Plagiarism Cases
Source: Cosmos When Terry Magnuson resigned as research vice chancellor at UNC at Chapel Hill after admitting to three instances of plagiarism in the resubmission of a funding application, he blamed his “mistake” on being “over-extended” performing his academic duties as well as running a genetics lab.
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Ph.D. students demand wage increases amid rising cost of living
Source: Science Inflation intensifies longstanding issue of low student pay.
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12 Leadership Lessons Based on 25 Years of Being Led
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education We may not want to be administrators, but we do want our leaders to succeed.
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Education Department delays release of draft Title IX rule again, now targets June
Source: Higher Ed Dive The agency at one point planned to publish proposed regulations directing how colleges must adjudicate sexual misconduct in April, then postponed to May.
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Teaching: Student Success Requires Faculty Well-Being
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education An expert on burnout in the higher-ed work force reflects on what instructors are experiencing.
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The evolving landscape of decentralised/virtual clinical trials
Source: Clinical Trials Arena The number of decentralised/virtual clinical trials and trials involving mobile healthcare more than doubled from 2019 to 2021.
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Why Leadership Development Should Be At The Core Of Your People Strategy In 2022
Source: Forbes After all, people are the most significant aspect of every company.
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