INTRODUCTION It is increasingly evident that sex and gender play an important role in disease and response to medical treatment. Accordingly, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun targeting funding and initiatives toward sexand gender-specific investigations. Although the field of Emergency Medicine (EM) has lagged behind other fields of medicine in its attention to sex and gender f...

In his January 2015 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama announced a new Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) to personalize approaches toward improving health and treating disease (www.whitehouse.gov/precision-medicine). He stated that the goal of such an initiative was "to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes, and to give all of us access to the personalize...

For innovators at academic or industrial institutions to develop personalized medicine products at the accelerated pace required, rapid access to state-of-the-art research tools and reagents are needed. Unreasonable restrictions or delays in the use of such tools may undermine the development of these customized diagnostics and therapeutic products designed to provide significant treatment bene...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Family medicine is actively engaged in residency redesign, but it is unclear how curricular innovation and restructuring of residency programs will affect their performance in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP). METHODS The Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice (P⁴) Project is a residency redesign initiative of 14 family medicine residency programs...

Suday, Sptem er 5, 2016 grant R01 GM087609 (to Dr. H. Peter Lorenz), a gift from Ingrid Lai and Bill Shu in honor of Anthony Shu (to Dr. H. Peter Lorenz), Hagey Laboratory for Pediatric Regenerative Medicine and The Oak Foundation (to Drs. Geoffrey C. Gurtner, H. Peter Lorenz, and Michael T. Longaker), Gunn/Olivier fund (to Drs. Irving L. Weissman and Michael T. Longaker), and NIH grant U01 HL0...

Suday, Sptem er 5, 2016 grant R01 GM087609 (to Dr. H. Peter Lorenz), a gift from Ingrid Lai and Bill Shu in honor of Anthony Shu (to Dr. H. Peter Lorenz), Hagey Laboratory for Pediatric Regenerative Medicine and The Oak Foundation (to Drs. Geoffrey C. Gurtner, H. Peter Lorenz, and Michael T. Longaker), Gunn/Olivier fund (to Drs. Irving L. Weissman and Michael T. Longaker), and NIH grant U01 HL0...

The Bernhard Nocht Institute (BNI) is a four months younger and much smaller sibling of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. It was founded on 1 October 1900 as an Institut für Schiffs- und Tropenkrankheiten (Institute for Maritime and Tropical Diseases) and was later named after its founder and first director Bernhard Nocht. Today it is the Germany's largest institution for research in tropical medicin...

gholam ali peyman, md was recognized for his great achievement on february 2013 when he was awarded with the honor of being named as one of the most distinguished in the list of 12 top researcher recipients of the national medal of technology and innovations in the united states. there were twelve highly accomplished inventors in the list of national medal of technology and innovation. scientis...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently released their DataBook for 2013 (National Institutes of Health DataBook, 2013), a laudable effort to increase the transparency of who applies for and is awarded grants. Dr. Jeremy Berg, former director of the National Institute of General Medical Science, deserves a shout-out for instigating the release of data used to drive decisions of funding...