4324 Phase 1 Sterile Product Formulation and Manufacturing at Academic Medical Centers: An Introduction for Translational Researchers

Statistics for dental researchers; part 1: Introduction

Learning statistics is a necessity for dental researchers. Due to daily dental science expansion, dental researchers have to study new papers in recent dental journals to remain up to date. On the other hand, knowing principles of statistics helps better understanding of the articles. Some authors revealed that knowledge of dentists about basic topics of statistics was poor. Therefore, in this ...

Advertising by academic medical centers.

BACKGROUND Many academic medical centers have increased their use of advertising to attract patients. While the content of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertisements (ads) has been studied, to our knowledge, advertising by academic medical centers has not. We aimed to characterize advertising by the nation's top academic medical centers. METHODS We contacted all 17 medical centers named...

Successful models of interventional nephrology at academic medical centers.

The foundation of endovascular procedures by nephrologists was laid in the private practice arena. Because of political issues such as training, credentialing, space and equipment expenses, and co-management concerns surrounding the performance of dialysis-access procedures, the majority of these programs provided care in an outpatient vascular access center. On the basis of the improvement of ...

Ghostwriting at Elite Academic Medical Centers in the United States

The cause of mental disorders such as depressionremains unknown. However, the idea that neurotransmitterimbalances cause depression is vigorously promoted bypharmaceutical companies and the psychiatric profession atlarge. We examine media reports referring to this chemicalimbalance theory and ask reporters for evidence supportingtheir claims. We then report and critique ...

Academic medical centers and conflicts of interest.