‘Journalologists’ Use Scientific Methods to Study Academic PublishingSeptember 20, 2018 |
Is their work improving science? Drummond Rennie, with support from his editor-in-chief, George Lundberg, dreamed up the inaugural Peer Review Congress. He wanted to turn the lens of science onto the journals themselves
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Why It’s So Hard for Doctors to Understand your PainApril 25, 2018 |
Each person experiences pain differently, from an emotional perspective as well as a physical one, and responds to pain differently. That means that physicians need to evaluate patients on an individual basis and find the best way to treat their pain
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Interventions such as speeding enforcement and formal swimming lessons for young children could potentially save more than 250,000 lives a year if they were implemented across populations living in extreme poverty in low- and middle-income countries, according to a new study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, including our Adnan Hyder
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Research Ethics Committee Assessment Toolkit (RECAT)August 17, 2017 |
Available for download: The Research Ethics Committee Assessment Toolkit (RECAT) is designed to facilitate evaluation of the operational needs of Research Ethics Committees (RECs) globally to inform local quality assurance and quality improvement efforts
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Babies can’t tell us how much pain they’re in, which poses a problem for healthcare practitioners who are trying to manage their care. A new technique that uses non-invasive brain scans overcomes this frustrating limitation by providing what may be the first objective measure of infant pain
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Ebola Global Response Was ‘Too Slow’, Say Health ExpertsNovember 23, 2015 |
A slow international response and a failure of leadership were to blame for the “needless suffering and death” caused by the recent Ebola epidemic, an independent panel of global health experts has concluded
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