Medpedia Announced, World's Largest Collaborative Online Encyclopedia of Medicine and Health

Medical Community Unites Behind Extraordinary Global Effort Project Calls for Additional Qualified Editors SAN FRANCISCO, July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Medpedia Project today announced the formation of the world's largest collaborative online encyclopedia of medicine called Medped...

20th Edition of the Encyclopedia of Social Work Published

Quality resource for social workers and others on timely topics; event to celebrate release April 25 WASHINGTON, April 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and Oxford University Press are proud to announce the 20th Edition of the Encyclopedia of S...

Immunoglobulin Can Predict Some Diabetic Complications

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Do the Swiss Have the Answer to America's Health Care Dilemma?

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New Option for Correcting Nearsightedness

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Heart Defect Spotted During Surgery May Not Need Repair

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Strep B Seems to Trick Immune System

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Growth Hormone May Build Muscle in Older Men

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Sepsis Treatment Offers Lifesaving Potential

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Ankle Replacement System Lets Feet Move

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Allopathic medicine

...ss of the term's historical use and the recent thawing of relations between irregulars and allopaths. – James C. Whorton [8] The Companion encyclopedia of the History of Medicine states that "Hahnemann gave an all-embracing name to regular practice, calling it 'allopathy'. This term, however imprecis...

Pathology

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Zinc in diet

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Yew

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Yawning

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Vitreous humor

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Verruca

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MBL develops infrastructure and portal for Encyclopedia of Life

The first 30,000 pages of a massive online Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) were unveiled today as scientists assemble for the prestigious Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) Conference in Monterey, California. Intended as a tool for scientists and policymakers and a fascinating resource for ...

The birds of Spain, in a digital ornithological encyclopedia

December 4, 2008.- La enciclopedia de las aves de Espaa , a joint initiative of the BBVA Foundation and SEO/BirdLife, is intended as an introduction for the general reader into the fascinating world of birds. This interactive, multimedia publication offers key facts on the life and habits of more...

A complete view of complexity in science and society in a new authoritative reference work

... A new unique work published by Springer, the encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science , extends the in...distinguished researchers and thought leaders, the encyclopedia assembles for the first time concepts and tools fo..., biomedicine, economics and social sciences. The encyclopedia will meet the needs of libraries in academia, gove...

Exploring standards to advance microbial genomics

...ersity remain unexplored. Kyrpides applauds the effort to coordinate balanced sampling of the Tree of Life recently launched through GEBA: the Genomic encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea ( http://www.jgi.doe.gov/programs/GEBA/index.html ). He also sees a way forward using single-cell genomics ⎯ a technique...

Academy Library accepted to prestigious Biodiversity Heritage Library

...he Biodiversity Heritage Library was launched in 2007 as a component of the encyclopedia of Life, with funding from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Arthur P. Sloan Foundation. EOL is an online encyclopedia devoted to documenting all of the species known to science. ...

DNA barcoding of mosquito species deployed in bid to end elephantiasis

...iosphere09.org), hosted by the Natural History Museum. Co-sponsored by the encyclopedia of Life and 12 other leading institutions, the event is an exposition of th...cations. JRS Board President James L. Edwards, Executive Director of the encyclopedia of Life, based at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, says biodive...

Springer partners with the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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Straw bale house survives violent shaking at earthquake lab

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Venter, Somerville and Church highlight DOE/JGI genomics of energy and environment meeting

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CSHL scientists find a new class of small RNAs and define its function

...n living cells and to hunt down their location amidst the thicket of genes and non-coding DNA, a multinational project known as ENCODE (an acronym for encyclopedia of DNA Elements) was initiated in 2003. Recent research by Professor Gingeras, who has played a major role in the project, has revealed that nearly al...

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Stanford writes in world's smallest letters

...could find a way to rewrite a page from an ordinary book in text 25,000 times smaller than the usual size (a scale at which the entire contents of the encyclopedia Britannica would fit on the head of a pin). He held onto his money until 1985, when he mailed a check to Stanford grad student Tom Newman, who, workin...

British School Kids With Diabetes Gain First Time Freedom From Injections With New Insulin Pump Guidelines

... March 2007 (PJ Bingley, Department of Clinical Science) (vi) University of Bristol, March 2007 (PJ Bingley, Department of Clinical Science) (vii) encyclopedia of Endocrine Diseases, Volume 3, p48. Insulin Secretion Physiology. Elsevier Inc. 2004. ...

Principle of Recursive Genome Function Supersedes Dogmas; By Andras Pellionisz, Online Ahead of Print; (Scientific Visionary Vindicated)

...n Springer's e-Journal Cerebellum. The paper marks the first anniversary of an historic event--the release of pilot results for ENCODE, the encyclopedia of DNA Elements project. Building on the results of the Human Genome Project, the ENCODE effort revealed a far more complex DNA coding sequence than w...

Informex365.com is Launched for Manufacturers in Search of Chemical Reactions Expertise

...ies of the world to find companies with knowledge in the reactions where help is needed, all in one click. Beyond this, the web portal will include an encyclopedia of the process chemical reactions that custom chemical experts rely on to produce world-class technologies for manufacturers," she added. Extending ...

National Stem Cell Holding Appoints Kenneth Steiner, MD, MBA, as Chief Operating Officer

...received his MBA from the University of Tennessee Business School, where he was also an instructor. Dr. Steiner is a former contributing editor of The encyclopedia of Health Care Management. He joined National Stem Cell as COO in May 2008. "I am privileged to join such an innovative biotech company as it makes ...

Answers.com's WikiAnswers Supervisors Rallying for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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EducatedInvestor.com Launches to Help Investors Make Informed Decisions

... company is also introducing new products, including a series of Educated Investor Guides and upgraded versions of the companys flagship product, The encyclopedia of Personal Finance , which features the new brand. The financial turmoil of recent years has convinced many investors that they need more basic kn...

Tech Digest (11/10/2004)

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The worldwide growth of ag biotech

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Joining the wiki wacki world

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Biodiversity

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Drug

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Drosophila

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Escherichia coli

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Gregor Mendel

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Keratin

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Punctuated equilibrium

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Zoology

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Zygotene

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Zoology

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Zygote

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Z-DNA

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Y chromosome

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Xylem

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Xenobiology

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Xanthophyll

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X chromosome

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