In an average year, just a single donor's tissue infected with HIV or hepatitis might slip through, but U.S. donations could be made even safer with genetic testing for the viruses, say researchers.
Researchers from the American Red Cross and Puget Sound Blood Centre/Northwest Tissue Centre in Seattle examined infection data
The National Centre for Policy Analysis (NCPA) and Fraser Institute of Canada have released an index of labour market performance showing that those states with higher-performing labour markets create more jobs, have lower unemployment and higher productivity.
The study measures the effect of public policy on labour market performance during
The incentive for American companies to invent new drugs depends on worldwide profits. Some profits come from the U.S. market and some from abroad. U.S. consumers may not like paying the high prices that generate such profits, says Robert J. Barro, a professor of economics at Harvard University and a
Many “scientific” papers predicting dire consequences from global warming are flawed, says Patrick J. Michaels of the Cato Institute. Furthermore, doom-and-gloom research on global warming is motivated by the promise of U.S. federal research dollars.
According to Michaels, the latest paper which appeared in the Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy
Some policymakers see the eventual switch to hydrogen-powered cars as inevitable, and the U.S. government has allocated $1.7 billion to the development of automotive hydrogen fuel cells for commercial use by 2020. But the road to hydrogen dependence is a bumpy one, according to Science Magazine.
Steam reformers, which are
