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New strategies to tackle medical ghostwriting are debated

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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Initial research into 'Proust Phenomenon' reveals link between memories and smells

(Medical Xpress) -- Most everyone has had the occasion of breathing in an odor and suddenly finding themselves lost in the reverie of a memory from long ago; the smell of fresh baked bread perhaps bringing ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

5 Questions: Magnus on the role of research ethics consultations

In the past decade, a growing number of academic medical centers have begun offering research ethics consultation services, in which bioethics experts help scientists address the ethical and societal implications of their ...

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Medical physicists say fear of diagnostic radiation is overblown

An association of physicists in the medical field has warned patients not to decline diagnostic radiation procedures because of perceptions that the tests may be harmful.

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created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

5 Questions: Ioannidis on the need to test medical 'truths'

(Medical Xpress) -- How many established standards of medical care are wrong? Disturbingly, no one knows for sure, but one study suggests that it could be almost half, according to a commentary published in the Jan. 4 issue ...

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Discharge summaries play key role in keeping nursing home patients safe

(Medical Xpress) -- Sending thorough and timely reports to nursing homes when a patient is discharged from the hospital could help promote patient safety during the early days after a hospitalization.   Yet, these repor ...

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Scientist-novelist back with second book at cell biology meeting

It's about living in two worlds times two, says Steve Caplan, the Israeli-born but American-now, scientist-novelist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. Caplan who has just published his second novel. "Welcome ...

Biology / Other

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Doctors could learn from Shakespeare's deep understanding of mind-body connection

Shakespeare was a master at portraying profound emotional upset in the physical symptoms of his characters, and many modern day doctors would do well to study the Bard to better understand the mind-body connection, concludes ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Non-coding RNA relocates genes when it's time to go to work

Cells develop and thrive by turning genes on and off as needed in a precise pattern, a process known as regulated gene transcription. In a paper published in the Nov. 9 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers at the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Writer Isaacson on Steve Jobs: 'I just listened'

(AP) -- Steve Jobs told Walter Isaacson he wanted him to write his biography because he's good at getting people to talk. Jobs, it turns out, didn't need much prodding, secretive as he was about both his private life and ...

Technology / Other

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Controlling gene expression to halt cancer growth

(Medical Xpress) -- NUT midline carcinoma (NMC) is a cancer without a cure, and one that affects all age groups. NMC is a rapid-growth disease with an average survival time of four and a half months after diagnosis, making ...

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created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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