Biomedical Research - Trends
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The way biomedical research is organized has dramatically changed over the past half-century: are the changes for the better?

27 Oct 2009 Biomedical research in today's universities is usually carried out by groups consisting of a leader and 5-20 or so trainees. This is in sharp contrast with past generations, when research was usually done by individuals or small partnerships of two ... Read more...

Advances in pediatric nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

29 Sep 2009 Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has emerged as the leading cause of chronic liver disease in children and adolescents in the United States. A two- to three-fold rise in the rates of obesity and overweight in children over the last two ... Read more...

[Electronic health records and biomedical research]

16 Sep 2009 The rapid progress in Web technology has led to the multiplication of health and research records for any given patient. Initiatives such as the personal medical record or the communicating cancer communicable records have recently been introduced. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Biomedical Research - Trends'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Highlights from the 49th ICAAC. 30 Oct 2009
• Obama's research-funding stimulus. 30 Oct 2009
• The way biomedical research is organized has dramatically changed over the past half-century: are the changes for the better? 27 Oct 2009
• Four decades of neurodegenerative disease research: how far we have come! 12 Oct 2009
• Rising star. 6 Oct 2009
• NerveCenter: media focus on 'miracle cure' for cerebral palsy pits science vs. hype. 29 Sep 2009
• Advances in pediatric nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. 29 Sep 2009
• [Electronic health records and biomedical research] 16 Sep 2009
• Vaccine venture boosts health hopes. 15 Sep 2009
• Opportunities and challenges for the NIH--an interview with Francis Collins. Interview by Robert Steinbrook. 14 Sep 2009
• Unconventional wisdom. 2 Sep 2009
• Researchers, funding, and priorities: the razor's edge. 31 Aug 2009
• Life-science research within US academic medical centers. 31 Aug 2009
• Turning laboratory findings into therapy: a marathon goal that has to be reached. 30 Aug 2009
• Editorial. 30 Aug 2009
• Prospects for developing an effective particle-mediated DNA vaccine against influenza. 30 Aug 2009
• Development of more efficient and effective DNA vaccines. 30 Aug 2009
• Report from the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. 30 Aug 2009
• Infectious Disease Research Network. 30 Aug 2009
• Issues in malaria vaccine development. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Biomedical Research'

Definition: Research that involves the application of the natural sciences, especially biology and physiology, to medicine. (from American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed)

Descriptor UI: D035843

Alternative terms: Biomedical Research; Research, Biomedical; Medical Research; Research, Medical; Clinical Research; Research, Clinical;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: H01.770.644.145;

History Note: 2003

Technical Notes: biomedical research as a field or the progress or status of biomedical research; do not add routinely for specific studies in biomedicine; do not coord with MEDICINE: Manual 29.16; for Clinical Research, CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC (see note there) and HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION are also available