Cardiac societies recommend the intake of 1 g/day of the two omega-3 fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) for cardiovascular disease prevention, treatment after a myocardial infarction, prevention of sudden death, and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. These recommendations are based on a body of scientific evidence that encompasses literally thous...

The British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB) today is a very vigorous scientific society which holds two meetings per year. The Spring Symposium, normally held concurrently with a meeting of the British Society for Cell Biology, is a major international meeting of high scientific quality with an attendance of 5001000. The Autumn meeting is a smaller affair with a limited number of forei...

Since the inception of evidence-based scientific concepts in medicine in the 19th century, the utility of postmortem microbiologic examinations has been a topic of controversy. For every study describing a lack of correlation between antemortem clinical and laboratory findings and postmortem culture results, there is equal evidence from other studies that indicates at least some limited utility...

The recent series of 3 articles published in Pain Physician regarding the ACOEM guidelines represented a significant new approach to evidence analysis and guideline synthesis by the addition of guideline criticism (1-3). The manner in which the articles were written attempt to objectively and strictly apply the methods of analysis and synthesis as proposed by prominent agencies and medical soci...

* PUST visit From 28 March to 8 April the AAAS, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, sponsored a visit to the United States by the president and secretary general of the new Panafrican Union of Science and Technology (PUST), Edward Ayensu and Levy Makany. The purpose of the visit was to familiarize PUST with the operations of scientific societies and the activities of relevant donors, ...

There is a great deal of interest in obtaining access to the vast stores of full-text literature held by the various publishers. The need to balance a reduction of the restrictions on access with the protection of the revenue streams of the publishers is critical. Without the publishers, the content would not be available and support for several scientific societies would also disappear. On the...

Scientific integrity is at the forefront of the scientific research enterprise. This paper provides an overview of key existing efforts on scientific integrity by federal agencies, foundations, nonprofit organizations, professional societies, and academia from 1989 to April 2016. It serves as a resource for the scientific community on scientific integrity work and helps to identify areas in whi...

To the Editor—The presence of drug-resistant organisms and their variability between hospitals and even within different areas of the same hospital requires a good knowledge of local microbiological epidemiology. The development of antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) in the hospital setting has been encouraged by scientific societies worldwide," and they have proved to be an essential mea...

Several institutions, such as the Ministry of Health, Universities, the Chilean Medical Association, Scientific societies and public opinion, recognize that there is a deficiency of specialized physicians in Chile. To overcome this shortage of specialists, the Ministry of Health, along with universities, is developing diverse initiatives to train specialists and cope with the requirements of th...