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New strategies to tackle medical ghostwriting are debated

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Better strategies to tackle ghostwriting in the medical literature are the subject of a debate by leading authors in next week's issue of the open-access journal PLoS Medicine. Ghostwriting is scientific misconduct, argues ...





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How would Einstein use e-mail? Letter writers of yore had same correspondence patterns as e-mail users today

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

You're not as different from Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin after all, at least when it comes to patterns of correspondence.


JAMA tightens rules affecting its authors

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created Jul 12, 2006 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Editors of The Journal of the American Medical Association say they will increase the disclosure requirements demanded of research writers.


Is it right for drug companies to carry out their own clinical trials?

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In BMJ today two experts debate whether the conflict of interest is unacceptable when drug companies carry out clinical trials on their own medicines.


Conficker worm hits hospital devices

Technology / Software

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 10

A computer worm that has alarmed security experts around the world has crawled into hundreds of medical devices at dozens of hospitals in the United States and other countries, according to technologists monitoring the threat.


WHO: global death toll from swine flu now over 700

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- The worldwide death toll from swine flu has doubled in the past month, reaching over 700 since the start of the outbreak last spring, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.


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With mental health insurance, price matters

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 23, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More people who need mental health services will seek follow-up care if the price is right, Brown University researchers have found.


Soldiers get mass swine flu shots before holidays (AP)

Soldiers get mass swine flu shots before holidays

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Thousands of Army recruits in training must line up at least once more before heading home for the holidays, this time for mass inoculations by the hundreds against swine flu.


New device measures heart health with drop of blood

New device measures heart health with drop of blood

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Is your heart sound? To answer that question, all assistant professor Shashi Murthy needs is a single drop of your blood.


Moderate amounts of protein per meal found best for building muscle

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

For thousands of years, people have believed that eating large amounts of protein made it easier to build bigger, stronger muscles. Take Milo of Croton, the winner of five consecutive Olympic wrestling championships in the ...


VA: 3 patients HIV-positive after clinic mistakes

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Apr 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Three patients exposed to contaminated medical equipment at Veterans Affairs hospitals have tested positive for HIV, the agency said Friday.



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