NSAIDS in the environment and compliance and ethics in clinical trials

Some important pharmacological issues that have been discussed this week center on  environmental problems and clinical trials issues.  The use of anti-inflammatory drugs known as NSAIDS (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) in farm animals is having a signficant impact on those higher up in the food chain-vultures http://www.nature.com/news/poisoned-vulture-could-herald-european-bird-crisis-1.16161.

Issues in the clinical trials arena include compliance, that is, how do we know that the participants in the clinical trials are actually taking the drugs like we think they are? http://www.sciencemag.org/content/346/6207/288.full.

Finally, the global concerns regarding how we can rapidly develop drugs to effectively treat Ebola continues to raise ethical issues http://www.sciencemag.org/content/346/6207/289.full