£30 million award to transform cardiovascular research

Award-Winning Research in 2017

Dear Colleagues, In 2017, the International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology has awarded the three best systematic and/or literature reviewspublished in our journal in 2016, seeking to highlight articles that form the foundations and concepts of universal knowledge. We believe this serves to identify, evaluate, and interpret all available and relevant studies for a specific thematic issue. The o...

RMATRIX - Clinical Translational Research Award.

The University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Manoa, John A. Burns School of Medicine received a research infrastructure award in November 2010 to advance clinical and translational research in health disparities reduction in Hawai‘i. Clinical and translational research refers to the translation of knowledge from the laboratory bench to the patient’s bedside and then to the larger community. The grant was ...

Over 30 million psychedelic users in the United States

We estimated lifetime prevalence of psychedelic use (lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), psilocybin (magic mushrooms), mescaline, and peyote) by age category using data from a 2010 US population survey of 57,873 individuals aged 12 years and older. There were approximately 32 million lifetime psychedelic users in the US in 2010; including 17% of people aged 21 to 64 years (22% of males and 12% of...

The 30 Million-Word Gap: Relevance for Pediatrics.

Using democracy to award research funding: an observational study

Background Winning funding for health and medical research usually involves a lengthy application process. With success rates under 20%, much of the time spent by 80% of applicants could have been better used on actual research. An alternative funding system that could save time is using democracy to award the most deserving researchers based on votes from the research community. We aimed to pi...