Clare Hovan's Videos

The United Kingdom had a pepper problem of prodigious proportions.
A 40,000-pound shipment of chili peppers was brought in from a foreign country, converted into food products, and then distributed far and wide. The government then discovered that the peppers...

Metabolic disorder: Find it early, save a child.
Skipping across the playground. Trotting off to school. Flying kites in the park. The researchers at the Centre Hospital Universite De Sherbrooke (CHUS) in Quebec need not look far to see reminders...

First to market. The ultimate pain reliever for a generic pharmaceutical company.
In the world of generic pharmaceuticals, there’s a simple saying: He who reaches the market first gets the biggest return. Little wonder Apotex wanted to decrease their overall cycle time from...

Want to know what drugs are in a patient’s body? Doctors know not to ask the patient.
How does a doctor determine whether a drug will work if he doesn’t know what other drugs the patient is taking? This perplexing question challenged Dominion Diagnostics, a laboratory specializing...