PHA Scientific Sessions Break New Ground, Providing Timely, Focused Venue for Current Research

Publishing scientific research: is there ground for new ventures?

This paper highlights some of the issues that have been reported in surveys carried out by the RIOJA (Repository Interface for Overlaid Journal Archives) project (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ls/rioja). Six hundred and eighty three scientists (17% of 4012 contacted), and representatives from publishing houses and members of editorial boards from peer-reviewed journals in astrophysics and cosmology prov...

Society for melanoma research and american heart association scientific sessions.

Among the featured topics: oncolytic immunotherapy, BRAF/MEK inhibition, and a programmed death-1 inhibitor at the Society for Melanoma Research; and anticoagulation therapy, an alternative to statins, and endocarditis in the absence of dental antibiotic prophylaxis at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.

A New Venue for Providing Catalytic Global Communications to Promote Health and Healing

We are pleased to announce that Global Advances in Health and Medicine (Global Advances) now serves as the official publication of the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine & Health and is published by SAGE. While Global Advances is independent editorially from both the Academic Consortium and SAGE, the journal benefits from the Consortium’s commitment to improving health outcomes worldw...

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Scientific Sessions 1–2

Aim : To evaluate diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) for detection of regional nodal metastases in primary head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). Materials and methods : Ten patients with HNSCC underwent an MRI prior to surgery. The scan protocol consisted of plain transverse T1and T2-weighted turbo spin echo (TSE) sequences and gadolinium-enhanced transverse, corona...