Biomedical Research
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Science, technology, and innovation: nursing responsibilities in clinical research.

29 Nov 2009 Clinical research is a systematic investigation of human biology, health, or illness involving human beings. It builds on laboratory and animal studies and often involves clinical trials, which are specifically designed to test the safety and ... Read more...

An integrated approach to evaluate faculty members' research performance.

30 Oct 2009 Medical school administrations need a widely acceptable method of assessing research performance of faculty to make management decisions. The challenge is to identify metrics that allow for comparison across fields. Level of extramural funding, ... Read more...

Institutions' expectations for researchers' self-funding, federal grant holding, and private industry involvement: manifold drivers of self-interest and researcher behavior.

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Private industry involvement is viewed as tainting research with self-interest, whereas public funding is generally well regarded. Yet, dependence on "soft money" also triggers researcher and university self-interest. No empirical ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Biomedical Research'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Science, technology, and innovation: nursing responsibilities in clinical research. 29 Nov 2009
• AIDS vaccine research and advocacy: an update. 29 Nov 2009
• Autoimmunity: limited progress for the patient, despite decades of research. 30 Oct 2009
• An integrated approach to evaluate faculty members' research performance. 30 Oct 2009
• Institutions' expectations for researchers' self-funding, federal grant holding, and private industry involvement: manifold drivers of self-interest and researcher behavior. 30 Oct 2009
• Commentary: Evaluating faculty productivity in research: an interesting approach, but questions remain. 30 Oct 2009
• The use of population based registers in psychiatric research. 30 Oct 2009
• Research and publishing in rehabilitation medicine. 30 Oct 2009
• Advocating for clinician-educators, investigators, and patients: report of the SID delegation to the AMA House of Delegates. 30 Oct 2009
• Jumpstarting academic careers with a novel intern research rotation: the AIMS rotation. 30 Oct 2009
• Highlights from the 49th ICAAC. 30 Oct 2009
• Obama's research-funding stimulus. 30 Oct 2009
• Male circumcision for prevention of HIV transmission. 29 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
• [Climate chance and research activity] 24 Oct 2009
• [We have taken the challenge] 20 Oct 2009
• Lost in a jungle of evidence: we need a compass. 18 Oct 2009
• Lost in a jungle of evidence: we need a compass. Practice parameters and technology assessments: what they are, what they are not, and why you should care. 18 Oct 2009
• Generic drugs revisited. 17 Oct 2009
• JCB meeting: Cell Biology of Disease. 17 Oct 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