Wiley announces publication of Databasing the Brain
Understanding the structure, function, and development of the brain in health and disease represents one of the great scientific challenges of our time. The emerging field of neuroinformatics integrates neuroscience with informatics to create unique databases and analytical tools for the large variety of neuroscience data types, applying them to brain research and linking them with databases with...NIH Calls on Scientists to Speed Public Release of Research Publications
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today a new policy designed to accelerate the public's access to published articles resulting from NIH-funded research. The policy ?the first of its kind for NIH ?calls on scientists to release to the public manuscripts from research supported by NIH as soon as possible, and within 12 months of final publication. These peer-reviewed, NIH-f...CoPub Mapper: mining MEDLINE based on search term co-publication
High throughput microarray analyses result in many differentially expressed genes that are potentially responsible for the biological process of interest. In order to identify biological similarities between genes, publications from MEDLINE were identified in which pairs of gene names and combinations of gene name with specific keywords were co-mentioned. MEDLINE search strings for 15,621...Scientists fetch useful information from dog genome publications
Today a plethora of dog genome-related materials are published, including a new book entitled of a high-quality draft sequence of the dog genome, are expected to provide both researchers and the public with informativ...Wisconsin's biotech industry recognized by national publication
Perhaps the gap between Wisconsins biotechnology sector and other well-established biotech regions is closing. A March 1 article in The East and West Coasts are often regarded as Americas biotechn...Disaster Planning Guide From Harvard Health Publications
Harvard Health Publications have come up with a disaster-planning guide to help the people who live in the areas// that are frequented by tropical storms, hurricanes, tidal waves and cyclones. No matter where anybody lives in the world, people are vulnerable to some sort of natural disaster such as a blizzard, earthquake, flood, hurricane, or tornado. In addition, terrorist attacks are a...The Publication Of Surgeon Specific Death Rates Raises Controversy
The publication of death rates of patients, specific for every surgeon in Scotland has led // to mixed reactions from members of the medical community. A majority of the surgeons feel that the act is misleading and meaningless. The name of the surgeon, list of hospitals in which the surgeon has operated, the total number of patients who underwent surgery and the associated mortality...Doctors Favor the Continued Publication of Free Drug Guide
The Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB) is a highly respected and influential journal. It doctors independent advice on the drugs they prescribe //. But the sad news is that it has to be closed as the government has withdrawing its funding after 40 years. This journal is sent to all doctors and offers doctors advice on heavily marketed pills. With respect to this the senior doctors have signed a...Russell Killer Bids To Halt Publication Of Mental Health Report
Michael Stone, the killer of Lin and Megan Russell has petitioned the High Court to deny an application to make his mental health report// public since it would be misused by the press. The 45-year-old Stone is is serving life for the two murders committed a decade ago. Stone's lawyer, Richard Clayton QC said that the parts of the mental health report if made public would be seriously...Feud Between Two Medical Publications
Researchers were asked to boycott the British Medical journal Lancet by a British Medical publication. This is due to the alleged ‘warmongering’ attitude// of Lancet’s parent company Reed Elsevier. While talking about this issue, editor of the BMJ (formerly British Medical Journal) Fiona Godlee criticized that the business which is expected to promote health is actually making money out...