Biomedicine
Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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The Difficulties and Challenges of Biomedical Research and Health Advances
The breakthroughs in medicine and advances in health care over the past several decades have been miraculous. The biomedical research enterprise in the United States has become the envy of other nations, as well as the primary source of the world’s new drugs and medical devices. Many of America’s advances in vaccinations, antibiotics, antipsychotic agents, surgery, and medical devices have contributed to this success and have helped turn uniformly fatal diseases to chronic conditions. This created an expectation that similar advances would occur for other devastating diseases.
As a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)…
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Why Pursue a Career in Biomedical Research?
People unfamiliar with current trends in biomedical research may picture a lonely scientist in a lab coat peering over a microscope to discover a new pathogen. This does happen, and the study of viruses, bacteria and other pathogens continues to be a vital part of medical research, but other work in the field encompasses diverse scientific research ranging from, for example, better ways for individuals with intellectual disabilities to communicate or developing new cochlear implants to help people with hearing deficits.
Stem cell research needs to shake off controversy
Stem cell research was originally a very controversial subject, but the remnants should not leave such a sour taste in our mouths. This research is science fiction in the making and definitely the next step in modern medicine. Stem cell research should be actively funded across the world.
The Difficulties and Challenges of Biomedical Research and Health Advances
The breakthroughs in medicine and advances in health care over the past several decades have been miraculous.
CrowdMed
CrowdMed is revolutionizing healthcare by harnessing ‘the wisdom of crowds’ to help solve even the world’s most difficult medical cases quickly and accurately online. After 4 years of development and refinement, CrowdMed’s patented prediction market technology can suggest diagnoses to real-world medical cases that have stumped doctors for years.
OpenMD
Search billions of documents from medical organizations, journals, and databases.
Applied Clinical Trials
The trusted clinical trials business resource.
CenterWatch
News and views on the clinical trials industry.
Clinical & Medical Affairs
Cutting-edge approaches to trial and study design, technology, sourcing, data disclosure and medical communications.
Clinical Research News
Clinical Research News reports on innovative technologies from clinical trials to medical informatics.
ClinicalResearch.com
Quintiles created ClinicalResearch.com to increase clinical research awareness, understanding and participation. Here you can find clinical research studies recruiting in your area and learn about advances in medical areas of interest to you.
Cutting Edge Information
Cutting Edge Information was founded in 2002 by consultants with extensive experience conducting research studies for high-level clients. We put this experience to work to eliminate traditional consulting’s hurdles and focus on producing high-quality information — drawn from top executives at real-world companies — for you and your organization.
Discovery Medicine
Discovery Medicine publishes novel, provocative ideas and research findings that challenge conventional notions about disease mechanisms, diagnosis, treatment, or any of the life sciences subjects.
FasterCures
FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute, is an action tank, determined to remove barriers to medical progress. We have only one goal: to save lives as rapidly as possible. We work to improve the medical research system–so that we can speed up the time it takes to get important new medicines from discovery to patients.
Findacure
Findacure is a charity that raises awareness and funds research into fundamental diseases: extreme and exceptional diseases that advance our understanding of medicine and help us discover potential new treatments.
FindZebra
The search engine for difficult medical cases.
Future Medicine
Future Medicine has developed an innovative publishing portfolio to reflect postgenomic medicine. The sequencing of the human genome was a colossal milestone in the evolution of healthcare, with repercussions for all those involved in the healthcare chain. Future Medicine provides healthcare practitioners and research professionals with a unique source of objective, cutting-edge information on exciting trends emerging in the light of these advances.
GCP Cafe
Discover industry trends and discuss hot topics with your peers and other clinical research professionals!
Genamics
Genamics JournalSeek is the largest completely categorized database of freely available journal information available on the Internet. The database presently contains 93424 titles. Journal information includes the description, journal abbreviation, journal homepage link, subject category and ISSN.
Global Change
Future of Health - articles / videos and keynote conference presentations by Futurist and Physician Patrick Dixon, on health care, hospitals, clinics, community care, pharmaceutical drug development, new therapies, treatments, alternative medicine, performance medicine, well-being and health promotion / prevention, government funding.
Global Medical Discovery
We offer readers the depth and breadth of breaking news about the latest scientific discoveries. GMD saves you hundreds of hours of professional reading each year, without the worry of missing vital medical information.
HealthCanal
HealthCanal.com is dedicated to providing students, post-docs, researchers, healthcare professionals, government agencies, and educators with timely, close-to-the-scene information and news about health and medical breakthroughs.
Horizon
The EU research and innovation magazine.
JournalWATCH
JournalWATCH helps physicians and allied health professionals save time and stay informed by providing brief, clearly written, clinically focused perspectives on the medical developments that affect practice.
MedBio World
MedBioWorld is a premier online resource portal for professional medical and biotechnology information.
medGadget
medGadget is an independent on-line journal covering the latest medical gadgets and technologies, discoveries in medical science, and the progress of the digital revolution in the healthcare industry.
Medical Device Guru
Forum for health care professionals covering daily medical device news and jobs in the medical device industry.
MediData
Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, provides business and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations
MIT Technology Review
The oldest technology magazine in the world (est. 1899), Technology Review aims to promote the understanding of emerging technologies and to analyze their commercial, social, and political impacts.
OneMedPlace
Covering the latest in medical technology innovation and investment opportunity.
Outsourcing-Pharma.com
Breaking news on contract research, manufacturing & clinical trials.
ResearchMatch
ResearchMatch has a simple goal — to bring together two groups of people who are looking for one another: (1) people who are trying to find research studies, and (2) researchers who are looking for people to participate in their studies. It is a free and secure registry that has been developed by major academic institutions across the country who want to involve you in the mission of helping today’s studies make a real difference for everyone’s health in the future.
RxTrials
RxTrials is an elite Integrated Site Network (ISN) and consulting/training firm focused on helping bring new treatments to patients that need them.
Study-Portal
Clinical Study-Portal has been designed to enable information sharing with all relevant parties in clinical studies. Clinical Study-Portal has been built from the ground to be as attractive and as user-friendly as possible. Therefore, it is an ideal tool to for enhancing sites and subject engagement.
Bio-IT World
Bio-ITWorld.com, Weekly Update newsletter and News Bulletins cover the application of informatics, IT and computer science in biomedical research and drug discovery. As the life sciences become an increasingly quantitative discipline, Bio-IT World provides topical news coverage and analysis of cutting-edge technologies to handle the data deluge in petascale computing and the tools to deliver individualized medicine.
BioClinica
Our mission is to be the quality leader within our industry for image management and eClinical services by offering best-in-class technology products, superior customer services and expert consultative support.
BioMed Central
BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.
Biospace
Biotech and Pharmaceutical News and Jobs.
The Academy of Medical Sciences
Improving health through research.
Cochrane
Are scientific methods used to determine which drugs and procedures are best for treating diseases? The answers may surprise you.
Ivanhoe
We are the country's largest news-gathering organization covering medical breakthroughs, family health and issues important to women. The information we provide is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between a patient/site visitor and his/her physician.
MedicalandTechnology.com
Perspectives about innovative advances in medicine and technology. Social media in health care. Trends in health IT.
MITLibraries
The mission of the MIT libraries is to create and sustain an intuitive, trusted information environment that enables learning and the advancement of knowledge at MIT.
National Library of Medicine
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, has been a center of information innovation since its founding in 1836. The world’s largest biomedical library, NLM maintains and makes available a vast print collection and produces electronic information resources on a wide range of topics that are searched billions of times each year by millions of people around the globe.
NIH
NIH is the largest source of funding for medical research in the world, creating hundreds of thousands of high-quality jobs by funding thousands of scientists in universities and research institutions in every state across America and around the globe.
PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
ScienceDaily
ScienceDaily is one of the Internet’s most popular science news web sites. Since starting in 1995, the award-winning site has earned the loyalty of students, researchers, healthcare professionals, government agencies, educators and the general public around the world.
UpToDate
UpToDate® is the premier evidence-based clinical decision support resource authored by physicians to help healthcare practitioners make the best decisions at the point of care. By combining the latest clinical knowledge with cutting-edge technology, UpToDate changes the way clinicians practice medicine and has become an indispensable part of clinical workflows in institutions and practices worldwide.
Wellcome Library
We are one of the world's major resources for the study of medical history. We also offer a growing collection of material relating to contemporary medicine and biomedical science in society.
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