Research Into Complementary/Alternative Medicine: A Personal Comment

TranslaTing research inTo operaTional Medicine

B o r d e n I n s t I t u t e For more than 25 years, the Military operational Medicine research Program (MoMrP) has been a world leader in the study of blast-related injury. this research has produced insights, data, and predictive models that set standards for human exposure, guide the design of protective systems, and allow quick responses to the questions generated in a rapidly changing bat...

Research into complementary medicine: some future challenges.

Personalized medicine: a personal view.

testing over the Internet, and collaborative groups of researchers are pursuing genetic variants that may, singly or in combination, define cohorts of women at higher-than-average risk of breast cancer and other diseases. Much is promised, but to date, little has been demonstrated. For evaluative purposes, it may be illustrative to consider the case of tamoxifen chemoprevention for carriers of ...

A manageable approach to integrating personal digital assistants into a family medicine clerkship.

Personal digital assistants (PDAs) were incorporated into the six-week Family Medicine Clerkship in 2002 to achieve two major goals: tracking students' outpatient encounters at preceptor sites and providing opportunities to use PDAs during medical visits. Each student collects information on each patient seen. Data are then retrieved and presented to students individually and as a group twice d...

Getting Personal: Accelerating Personalised and Precision Medicine Integration into Clinical Cancer Research and Care in Clinical Trials.

there is a realisation that we need to facilitate an accelerated ‘concept-to-clinic’ culture, but in a way that translates preliminary discovery ‘hits’ into robust but affordable clinical ‘wins’ for our patients. Recognising the need to define barriers and to develop putative solutions to the integration of PPM into clinical cancer research and care, the Brussels-based European Alliance for Per...