Health Policy 1998;19:267-88. [The author responds:]

• Main Authors: Inuit J Investig Med, As I Underst, His Argument
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Canada; The Bench; First Nations
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.600.3072; http://www.cmaj.ca/content/162/6/758.2.full.pdf

occur without bench research (espe-cially Canadian). But doesn’t his asser-tion overlook about 35 000 surgical, ed-ucational and health care trials, most of which required no prior bench re-search? And doesn’t he defeat his own argument with the 3 recent drug trials he does cite (2 led from Canada a...