Opposition to current drug safety legislation is growing, as a group of 22 experts on drug safety and regulation and a coalition of 12 patient, consumer, science, and public health organizations issue two separate open letters to lawmakers. The letter from FDA experts asks the lawmakers to not reauthorize the user fees system that finances the review of new drugs by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

A new study has shown that public involvement in policy-making is unlikely to become more prevalent in the information ageof internet - confounding hopes of e-democracy enthusiasts everywhere for a strengthened state of democratic engagement.

-2.65m jobs lost each year, but 2.76m jobs created.
-Small firms more important than many previously claimed - accounting for 70 per cent of new jobs, but also 60 per cent of jobs destroyed.
-Most detailed analysis of the scale of job creation and destruction ever carried out in the UK. Researchers surprised by the figures, which they say could influence public policy makers

With the scientific data on global climate change so widely available, why do some nations' governments take action while others deny that the problem even exists? In the middle of the United States' warmest winter on record, a conference at the University of Minnesota will bring together social scientists from around the world to investigate that very question.