Clinical Trials: Registered Late, Published Late, Smaller Than Planned

Kent Anderson, writing in the The Scholarly Kitchen, observes: For any major medical study, the stakes are high — the results can affect how patients take care of themselves and how physicians treat disease, for years if not decades. Yet all is not well in the land of medical research, judging from a recent analysis [...]

IOM & HBO Documentary Films: The Weight of the Nation Trailer

Academic Spring: A Wellcome Moment

As Monica H. Green (Professor of History, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Arizona State U) recently brought to the attention of members of Medieval Medicine listserv (MEDMED): Some of you have already heard about a movement among scientists to break the stranglehold that a small number of publishers have on scientific journal publication. [...]

Retractions

The New York Times reports on a growing concern about researchers’ misconduct and journal editors’ need to retract previously published articles: The journal [Infection and Immunity] wound up retracting six of the papers from the author, Naoki Mori of the University of the Ryukyus in Japan. And it soon became clear that Infection and Immunity [...]

Inside Higher Ed: Scholarly Publishing

Three articles in Inside Higher Ed today came to our attention. The controversial proposed law originating in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, the Research Works Act, which would have prohibited the government from requiring open access publication of studies funded by the federal government, lost a key supporter, Elsevier Publishing and has been withdrawn by [...]

Reducing Errors in the OR? There’s an App for That

This free OR checklist app was developed by a UConn med student.  

Nursing in the (Good) News

Nursing in 2011 was in the good news. First, for the tenth straight year, nursing was identified as the most trusted profession by respondents to a Gallup poll: http://www.gallup.com/poll/151460/Record-Rate-Honesty-Ethics-Members-Congress-Low.aspx  Second, the Institute of Medicine announced that the most-read of its publications in 2011 was its 2010 report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.

Keeping Track of Your Ms Submissions

How do you keep track of manuscripts that you are trying to place with journals? To which journals have you already sent a manuscript (and which journals are next on your list)? How long has a manuscript been in the hands of an editor or reviewers (and is it time to withdraw it to submit [...]

Costa Book Awards, Nurse Newcomer

The Guardian announces today: An intensive care nurse at Great Ormond Street children’s hospital in London will compete for one of the UK’s biggest literary prizes after her debut novel was shortlisted in the Costa book awards. Christie Watson, who has been a nurse for 18 years, is nominated in the first book category of [...]

Inside Higher Ed: Gap in NIH Funding for Black and White Researchers

Reported today in Inside Higher Ed: White applicants for grants from the National Institutes of Health were significantly likelier than black researchers to win funding, according to a Science magazine study published Thursday that sought (and struggled) to explain the reasons for the gap. The study found that about 16 percent of black applicants were [...]