French research moves to meet public needs

French public research--saved?

Changes in Medical Education Programs to Meet Community Needs

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Proposed NIH budget increase too small to meet research needs.

I n an era of supposed budget surpluses and debt reduction, most researchers in the field of biomedical science had anticipated that the planned doubling of the budget for the National Institutes of Health by the year 2003 would remain on track. However, after the State of the Union address by President Clinton, most were chagrined to realize that he proposed to increase the NIH budget by just ...

Should research ethics committees meet in public?

Currently, research ethics committees (RECs) in the UK meet behind closed doors-their workings and most of the content of their decisions are unavailable to the general public. There is a significant tension between this current practice and a broader societal presumption of openness. As a form of public institution, the REC system exists to oversee research from the perspective of society gene...

Centralized research recruitment-evolving a local clinical research recruitment web application to better meet user needs.

Recruiting volunteers into clinical research remains a significant challenge for many clinical research study teams, thus the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR) at the University of Michigan developed UMClinicalStudies (http://www.UMClinicalStudies.org)-a Web application that links the community to a single gateway for clinical research. UMClinicalStudies (formerly name...