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  • Avoiding "Incidental" Damages
    Presidential panel, ACMG, and experts struggle with what patients should learn, and how. Sarah Hilgenberg, M.D., was a self-described "hard-working, high achieving, strong willed, ...
    5-15-2013
  • Ethical Considerations in Phase II Trials
    In an article appearing in the May 8 edition of Science Translational Medicine, Spencer Phillips Hey, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the Biomedical Ethics Unit at McGill ...
    5-7-2013
  • New Study Shows Where to Start Your Start-Up
    U.K. Found to Be Most Favorable Location for Nascent One-Product Companies In an era of payer austerity and funding challenges, more and more biotech entrepreneurs and investors, ...
    5-1-2013
  • Is Brain Mapping Ready for Big Science?
    The BAM Project Will Be an Expensive Undertaking-Will It Be Worth the $3B Cost? President Barack Obama's public-private initiative to create an activity map of the human brain will ...
    5-1-2013
  • GEN Congressional Hall of Fame
    Biomedical research has friends in high places. Meet them. Below is a list of 50 current members of Congress-30 of the House of Representatives and 20 of the Senate-who have been ...
    5-1-2013
  • Anti-GE Activism: Will It Ever End?
    What Is Motivating the Anti-Genetic Engineering Foods Movement? More than 400 million acres of genetically engineered (GE) crops have been grown in more than three dozen countries ...
    4-15-2013
  • Bird Flu Back Again?
    H7N9 has killed six people so far. Find out what's being done about it. As the New York Times reported on Saturday that a sixth person has died from a mysterious avian-borne virus, ...
    4-9-2013
  • Personalized Medicine: The Societal Perspective
    In this final chapter of a five-part series, find out how personalized medicine could change the doctor-patient relationship and, perhaps, society as a whole. With personalized ...
    4-8-2013
  • Endo Gives Up on Bioniche's Urocidin
    Bioniche Life Sciences said today it plans to revive development of its Phase III bladder cancer drug Urocidin(tm) now that sponsorship has been returned to the company by former ...
    4-2-2013
  • ENCODE-ing the Future
    The ENCODE project was established to utilize and integrate multiple techniques to help identify the functional elements encoded in the human genome. In three back-to-back papers ...
    4-1-2013
  • Is Brain Mapping Ready for Big Science?
    The BAM project will be an expensive undertaking. Will it be worth the cost? President Barack Obama's public-private initiative to create an activity map of the human brain will ...
    3-27-2013
  • 20 Grants for Young Researchers
    Looking for funding? Here are some places to start. As we've discussed in the past , it's not always easy for young researchers to get grants. While the NIH does have a policy of ...
    3-25-2013
  • On the Menu: Supersized Soda Wars
    The NYC ruling halting the ban on large-sized sugary beverages is unlikely to stop future court fights over anti-obesity laws. The battle over soda consumption, like the broader ...
    3-22-2013
  • PhRMA Report: 907 Drugs, Vaccines in Development
    Biopharmaceutical companies are developing a total of 907 new biologic drugs and vaccines for more than 100 diseases, according to a new report by The Pharmaceutical Research and ...
    3-14-2013
  • Anti-Genetic Engineering Activism: Why the Bastards Never Quit
    Dr. Henry I. Miller is back to talk about what he feels motivates the anti-GE foods movement. In spite of experience, evidence, and expert opinion pointing to the safety of ...
    3-12-2013
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  • Rural Inpatient Telepharmacy Consultation Demonstration for After...
    Stacey Lynn Cole, John H Grubbs, Cathy Din, Thomas Nesbitt
    Telemedicine and e-Health
    Rural Inpatient Telepharmacy Consultation Demonstration for After-Hours Medication Review Telemedicine and e-Health Objective: Medication errors contribute to a significant number ...
  • The Taxonomy of Telemedicine
    Rashid Bashshur, Gary Shannon, Elizabeth Krupinski, Jim Grigsby
    Telemedicine and e-Health
    The Taxonomy of Telemedicine Telemedicine and e-Health Abstract The purpose of this article is to present a taxonomy for telemedicine. The field has markedly grown, with an ...
  • Telemedicine Standards: Need and Indian Initiatives
    Baljit Singh Bedi
    Telemedicine and e-Health
    Telemedicine Standards: Need and Indian Initiatives Telemedicine and e-Health Telemedicine has special significance to India considering its vast geographical spread and ...
  • Open Fractures: It Doesn't Come Out in the Wash
    Lisa L. Schlitzkus, Claudia E. Goettler, Brett H. Waibel, Scott G. Sagraves, Christopher C. Hasty, Melinda Edwards, Michael F. Rotondo
    Surgical Infections
    Open Fractures: It Doesn't Come Out in the Wash Surgical Infections Abstract Background: Six hours from injury to washout is considered the gold standard in the treatment of open ...

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