Advancing Chemistry Worldwide

Chemistry. Chemistry in a computer: advancing the in silico dream.

Advancing proteomics with ion/ion chemistry.

Mass spectrometers, instruments that use electric and/or magnetic fields to measure a gas-phase ion's mass-to-charge ratio (m/z), are used in a wide variety of applications--with the field having a reputation for providing good sensitivity and high-informing power. Protein analysis (proteomics) is a relatively recent affair for the field and was enabled in the late 1980s with the advent of biom...

National Associations Survey: advancing hospice and palliative care worldwide.

As part of a cooperative effort among several international associations to advance hospice and palliative care worldwide, and in connection with the Second Global Summit of National Hospice and Palliative Care Associations in Seoul, South Korea, the U.S.-based National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) conducted a survey of all known national hospice/palliative care organization...

Advancing in tandem: clinical endocrinology and clinical chemistry.

Here I review some of the recent accomplishments in clinical endocrinology and clinical chemistry, point out the direction of future work, and try to predict some of the advances of the next decade. Endocrinology, perhaps more than any other branch of clinical medicine, is rooted in biochemistry and physiology. Endocrinologists have been leaders in the development of methods, which have been ad...

Worldwide inequality in production of systematic reviews

Background: Investment in science is vital for the development and well-being of societies. This study aims to assess the scientific productivity of countries by quantifying their publication of systematic reviews taking the gross national income per capita (GNIPC) into account. Methods: Medline and ISI Web of Science were searched for systematic reviews published between 1st January 2006 an...