Drug Development for Rare Diseases

The economics of any industry relies on a large demand for a particular product; this applies to the pharmaceutical industry where efforts are focused on big and relatively straight-forward diseases...

Videos of Real-Life Stumbles May Help Fall-Prevention Efforts

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 17 -- Incorrect weight shifting is the most common cause of falls in elderly people, according to researchers who analyzed videos of actual falls among seniors. The videos of 227 falls...

New American Chemical Society videos celebrate 25 years of National Chemistry Week

(American Chemical Society) The American Chemical Society today released two new videos celebrating the 25th Anniversary of National Chemistry Week. The videos, from the world's largest scientific soc...

Syrris videos show how to access the benefits of flow chemistry

Syrris has produced an exciting series of online videos...

Nonviolent videos better for preschoolers' sleep

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Preschoolers seemed to sleep better when their parents were encouraged to cut kids' exposure to violent or age inappropriate videos throughout the day, in a new study.

Amateur parody videos can make the originals more popular and profitable

Amateur parody videos on YouTube can lead to increased views and popularity for the original, research has found.

CustomerCentric Selling® Unveils New Client Testimonial Videos to Showcase Significant Sales Success

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) June 28, 2012 CustomerCentric Selling® (CCS™), a proven methodology for improving revenue growth and sales performance, today announced the addition of several new cli...

New Videos from NCI: "Understanding Your Cancer Prognosis"

NCI has released a series of five videos for patients and their health care teams about how to understand and talk about cancer prognosis.

Drug Abuse Office Offers Videos for Docs

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- The White House has launched another salvo in its war on prescription drug abuse and diversion: training videos for physicians.

When Vaccines Go Viral: An Analysis of HPV Vaccine Coverage on YouTube.

This article reports a content analysis of YouTube videos related to the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. In total, 172 YouTube videos were examined with respect to video sources, tones, and viewer...

"I'll be your cigarette--Light me up and get on with it": Examining smoking imagery on YouTube.

INTRODUCTION: Smoking imagery on the online video sharing site YouTube is prolific and easily accessed. However, no studies have examined how this content changes across time. We studied the primary m...

Can "YouTube" help students in learning surface anatomy?

AIMS: In a problem-based learning curriculum, most medical students research the Internet for information for their "learning issues." Internet sites such as "YouTube" have becom...

Analysis of eye gaze: Do novice surgeons look at the same location as expert surgeons during a laparoscopic operation?

INTRODUCTION: Eye-gaze technology can be used to track the gaze of surgeons on the surgical monitor. We examine the gaze of surgeons performing a task in the operating room and later watching the oper...

Connecting world youth with tobacco brands: YouTube and the internet policy vacuum on Web 2.0.

Background The internet is an ideal forum for tobacco marketing, as it is largely unregulated and there is no global governing body for controlling content. Nevertheless, tobacco companies deny advert...