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National Endorsement of the InFORMed PICF Template
A new nationally endorsed template aims to simplify and streamline Participant Information and Consent Forms for researchers and participants. For the Australian health sector to deliver the outcomes that Australians expect, we need a vibrant medical research sector. Medical research is strongest when people from a wide range of backgrounds participate. Before taking part in a health and medical research project, potential participants must decide if the project is right for them.
Reading, Writing, Revising
I've been thinking a lot about character arcs this month. Despite the amount of time I've already spent planning and attempting drafts of the current novel, I realized I didn't have a clear enough sense of what should be driving and changing the characters over the course of the story. Sure, I'd set up events in the world for characters to respond to and conflicts to develop between them, but I couldn't make the pieces of the plot fit together in a satisfying way.
Releases I'm Ready For, Winter 2024
In my previous post, I looked back at the highlights of my 2023 reading. By now, my 2024 reading is already well underway, and I'm looking ahead to the new books I've been anticipating: → KINNING by Nisi Shawl (January 23): I didn't actually get much chance to anticipate this one, because I only just learned the good news that Shawl has written a sequel to EVERFAIR.
Reading, Writing, Revising
I spent February reading wonderful novels: → OLGA DIES DREAMING by Xochitl Gonzalez: Olga has built a successful wedding planning business, managing events for wealthy clients with more money than sense. She gets a thrill, and extra income, from finding opportunities to exploit the rich, but she's increasingly dissatisfied that she's not doing something more meaningful. Her brother Prieto is the do-gooder, a member of Congress who genuinely wants to improve the lives of his Brooklyn constituents.
Reading, Writing, Revising
I started off the year with some great and varied reading: → THE SENTENCE by Louise Erdrich: Tookie is released from prison after serving a sentence of many years for her involvement in a strange crime. She gets a job in a Minneapolis bookstore and lives a normal life for a while, until the store becomes haunted by a customer who is as annoying in death as she was in life. This happens in November 2019, and as the haunting becomes more ominous, so do events beyond the bookstore.
Patients have rights. Here's how to use yours
What rights do you have when discussing medical treatments or test results with your doctor? Credit: from www.shutterstock.com Working your way around the health-care system can be overwhelming. This is especially hard when care takes place in health systems under stress. However as a patient, you have rights about how you're treated. This includes not just your actual therapy, but how you're spoken to, how your records are handled and even whether you wish to be treated at all.
Patients have rights. Here's how to use yours
Working your way around the health-care system can be overwhelming. This is especially hard when care takes place in health systems under stress. However as a patient, you have rights about how you’re treated. This includes not just your actual therapy, but how you’re spoken to, how your records are handled and even whether you wish to be treated at all. Now, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care has updated its charter of patient rights.
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Key challenges in bringing CRISPR-mediated somatic cell therapy into the clinic
Quantifying the likely harms and benefits of novel, disruptive therapeutics such as genome editing will always involve considerable uncertainty. Within the permissible spectrum of CRISPR-mediated activities, rigorous regulatory approaches for risk and benefit assessment will be essential. This is not to assert that all regulatory insufficiencies require probing evaluations of their specific applicability and adequacy in respect of genome editing.
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