Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “BioMed Central”
“Extreme Life Extension: Part 2.” Last week we talked about extreme life extension—what if we could live for hundreds of years. Today we talk about what we might do with such long lives. (Oh, and check out http://timeship.org a project on which I work. More on Timeship in a future show.) Download this episode (right click and save)
Maybe evolution works best during times of confusion and chaos when new choices can be made.
Only 29% published in journal in two years, 13% on registry Dissemination varies widely among 51 academic medical centers One-third of clinical trials conducted at 51 major U.S. universities and academic hospitals were never published in a peer-reviewed journal or in a government registry online, according to a new study in the BMJ, formerly the British Medical Journal. The researchers …
There is evidence indicating that getting flu shots year after year could actually lower your immune system’s effectiveness. Recently, Dr. Edward Belongia of Wisconsin’s Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation discussed findings that children who had been vaccinated annually over a number of years were more likely to contract the flu than kids who were only vaccinated in the season in which …
A major publisher of scholarly medical and science articles has retracted 43 papers because of “fabricated” peer reviews amid signs of a broader fake peer review racket affecting many more publications. The publisher is BioMed Central, based in the United Kingdom, which puts out 277 peer-reviewed journals. A partial list of the retracted articles suggests most of them were written by scholars at …
