Alberta could save millions on generic drugs
Albertans pay very high prices for generic drugs compared to other jurisdictions and it’s not because of the drug companies, says professor Aidan Hollis, a University of Calgary expert in the economics of pharmaceutical markets.

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In the News

Prominent climate change scientist David Keith, the University of Calgary’s Canada Research Chair in Energy and the Environment, is featured in CBC Radio One’s “Climate Wars” series, presented by journalist and broadcaster Gwynne Dyer. Dyer examines several radical short- and medium-term measures for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and slowing climate change, including Keith’s research on “geo-engineering” the Earth’s climate. The podcast can be downloaded at: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/podcast.html (scroll down to “Climate Wars – Part 3”).

Postcard

Postcard from the MediterraneanEtienne Aida Reyes Le Blanc is a fourth-year year humanities student who went on a Group Study Program to the Mediterranean. “I believed that the value of internationalizing my degree (and more specifically, myself) would be incalculable.” Here is her postcard home.

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