Advancing Science Education

Advancing regulatory science, advancing regulatory practice

In an Editorial of Science in 2011, Margaret A. Hamburg, the then Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration highlighted that a strong field of regulatory science is required to develop new tools, standards and approaches that efficiently and consistently assess the safety, efficacy and performance of products, and that this field has long been underappreciated and underfunded.1 During...

Advancing Science in Europe

Acknowledgments The DEISA Consortium thanks the European Commission for support through contracts FP6-508830 and FP6-031513. The DECI consists of the identifi cation, enabling, deploying and operation of " fl agship " applications in selected areas of science and technology. These leading, ground breaking applications must deal with complex, demanding, innovative simulations that would not be p...

Advancing Education in Optometry

Advancing the science of team science.

The First Annual International Science of Team Science (SciTS) Conference was held in Chicago, IL April 22-24, 2010. This article presents a summary of the Conference proceedings.

Advancing Products with Proven Science

Glucosamine is an amino sugar molecule used by many people to relieve the pain, discomfort, and progression of osteoarthritis. The benefit of using glucosamine to treat osteoarthritis has been supported by several clinical trials. However, it is noted not all clinical trials using glucosamine have been consistent. This article starts by discussing what osteoarthritis and glucosamine are. The ar...