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Academic medical centers' standards for clinical-trial agreements with industry.

BACKGROUND Although industry sponsors provide approximately 70 percent of the funding for clinical drug trials in the United States, little is known about the legal agreements that exist between industry sponsors and academic investigators. We studied institutional standards regarding contractual provisions that restrict investigators' control over trials. METHODS We used a structured, cross-...

EU faces world's fastest growing HIV epidemic.

Continuous Selection of the Fastest Growing Species in the Chemostat

This paper proposes control laws for the continuous culture of microorganisms, which make it possible to select species which maximize a criterion. In particular, by controlling the dilution rate and the input substrate concentration, the species with the fastest growth rate in chosen environmental conditions can be selected. In a first step a control is proposed for Monod and Droop models in o...

Clinical Skills Centers Standards

Introduction. Setting up “Clinical Skills Labs” has been started in some Iranian medical universities since five years ago. In an educational workshop for Clinical Skills Labs managers in January 2001, many managers stated that if there were standards for these centers it would help them define the necessities of the center. These standards would also make the basis for internal and external ev...

Global health hospitalists: the fastest growing specialty's newest niche.

Over the last decade, health systems strengthening, workforce training, and patient safety have come to the forefront of global health (GH) priorities. Although a growing literature describes the advantages and challenges of GH experience during medical school and residency, little is known about patterns of GH activity among hospitalists. As the fastest growing US medical specialty, hospital m...