Whom do scientists talk to? Themselves or the general public?

General cardiology TO WHOM DO THE RESEARCH FINDINGS APPLY?

When a new intervention (drug, procedure or device) becomes mainstream care, one hopes that all groups of patients for whom this intervention is intended have been properly studied and, thus, are well defined. This ideal situation rarely applies. The clinical trials conducted to determine efficacy and safety of new interventions are typically designed to be feasible and time and cost efficient....

Expressions That Talk About Themselves

Do Scientists Pay to Be Scientists?

This paper explores the relationship between wages and the scientific orientation of R&D organizations. Firms who adopt a science-oriented research approach (i.e., “Science”) allow their researchers to pursue and publish an individual research agenda.. The adoption of Science may be associated with a “taste” for Science on the part of researchers (a Preference effect) and/or as a “ticket of adm...

For whom the desert bell tolls: heat stroke or stroke

       Heat stroke is the most complicated and dangerous amongst heat injuries that can lead to irreversible injury and even death with itself or with creating predisposibility to different diseases. The following case report depicts a patient who presented primarily with impairment of consciousness after walking 45 km in the summer heat to cross the Syria-Turkey border and la...

Explain the Brain: Websites to Help Scientists Teach Neuroscience to the General Public

Autism Awareness Month, Healthy Vision Month, Mental Health Month, National Aphasia Awareness Month, National Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month, and World Alzheimer’s Month. This Feature showcases Internet-based resources to help neuroscientists explain their work to the general public and K–12 audiences. These Internet resources feature videos, images, animations, and other outreach tools...