Datamonitor - aims to help its clients operating in the pharmaceuticals, healthcare and biotechnology fields, offering world-leading products and services to meet the challenges of this rapidly evolving marketplace

The Datamonitor Group aims to help its clients operating in the pharmaceuticals, healthcare and biotechnology fields, offering world-leading products and services to meet the challenges of this rapi...

Novartis

Novartis is the fourth largest pharmaceutical company in the world, based on annual sales, which are exceeded $36,000m in 2009. Founded in 1996, Novartis focuses of four main areas; pharmaceuticals,...

Laboratory

Labs are the hub of much of modern medicine, either in the hospital setting processing patients blood tests and other samples, in research institutions at many universities or in the headquarters of...

Coagulation Factors

Fourteen different blood coagulation factors are present in the body. Each plays a crucial role in the process described above. Some work to increase the activity level of the other factors while so...

Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM)

Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM) is new psychiatric therapy; involving just a few 15-minute sessions and no drugs, discussion of feelings, or even a psychiatrist, it is described as a cognitive vac...

Researchers: Modern culture may have earlier start

According to two scientific articles published this week, poisoned-tipped arrows and jewelry made of ostrich egg beads found in South Africa show modern culture may have emerged about 30,000 years...

Evolutionary mode routinely varies amongst morphological traits within fossil species lineages

What happens when the modern evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium collides with the older theory of mosaic evolution? Part of the answer comes from a new, wide-ranging study by paleobiologist...

Revenge of the Lizard Brain

There s a scene in Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas in which the writer, high out of his mind on hallucinogens, watches a roomful of casino patrons transform into giant lizards and lunge at each...

Eine Kleine Knock Music: GE Engineer Used Music Theory to Prevent Engine Damage, Then Turned Sounds of Engine Trouble into Music

Good engineers have many handy tools hanging from their belts. Jeff Bizub has a degree in music theory. “Music theory…

Who Says the Sexes Are Planets Apart?

THURSDAY, Feb. 7 -- Men are from Mars, and Women are from Venus? Maybe not. It's a pop psychology theory that has permeated modern culture, but a new study debunks the premise that men and women are i...

Research raises doubts about whether modern humans and Neanderthals interbred

(University of Cambridge) New research raises questions about the theory that modern humans and Neanderthals at some point interbred, known as hybridization. The findings of a study by researchers at...

Amgen’s biosimilar plans

Amgen was one of the first companies to recognize the potential of modern biotechnology and this has made it the world’s largest independent biotechnology firm.

Dumbing down: mutations make modern man mindless, says academic

Genetic mutations in thousands of genes that govern our intelligence are contributing to a 'dumbing down' of humanity, as claimed in a controversial new theory...

Composite reliability of a workplace-based assessment toolbox for postgraduate medical education.

In recent years, postgraduate assessment programmes around the world have embraced workplace-based assessment (WBA) and its related tools. Despite their widespread use, results of studies on the valid...

An electronic portfolio for quantitative assessment of surgical skills in undergraduate medical education.

BACKGROUND: We evaluated a newly designed electronic portfolio (e-Portfolio) that provided quantitative evaluation of surgical skills. Medical students at the University of Seville used the e-Portfoli...

The use of reflective and reasoned portfolios by doctors.

Abstract Rationale Reflective portfolios have been widely trailed in vocational programmes for health sciences education. While not raised explicitly yet, there is recognition that an essential part o...

E-portfolios and personalized learning: research in practice with two dyslexic learners in UK higher education.

This paper analyses the use of an e-portfolio system in contributing to the personalized learning of two dyslexic learners at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. The rationale for this research rests...

Individualized medicine, health medicine, and constitutional theory in Chinese medicine.

The patterns of modern science and changes in the medical model can result in the transformation of the current state of individualized and health medicines into being the primary trend in medical dev...