At the end of the year 2013 the open access portal “German Medical Science” (gms) has attained a well-established stage of development documented by the number of published articles and abstracts and by the electronic visits to the portal. Meanwhile 3,208 articles and 46,800 abstracts have been published. The portal will this year integrate a section for electronic books, the first project pend...

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOH-CA) claims the lives of almost 300 000 Americans each year,1 a loss of life equivalent to that caused by a September 11 World Trade Center attack on the United States every 3 days! Despite advances in public education on recognition of cardiac arrest, early notification of emergency medical services (EMS) 9-1-1 centers, lay bystander cardiopulmonary resuscita...

4 ORIGINAL PAPERS 5 ABBREVIATIONS 6 INTRODUCTION 7 Marker substances for GFR 8 Endogenous markers 8 Exogenous markers 8 Clearance techniques for determination of GFR 9 Continuous infusion method 9 Single injection method 10 Single injection, single sample methods 12 AIMS OF THE STUDY 16 MATERIALS AND METHODS 17 Materials 17 Cr-EDTA and Tc-DTPA analysis 18 Iohexol analysis 19 Derivation of a sin...

I just returned from a conference at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) titled "Biomaterials and Medical Implant Science." This meeting's recommendations will undoubtedly influence much of what we do, or plan to do, ill biomaterials and biomechanics research in the rest of this decade and into the next century. Accordingly, the JOMI readership should be most interested in the meeting's res...

British Contributions to Medical Science, edited by WILLAM C. GiBSON, London, Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, 1971, pp. xi, 302, £3.50. Every foreigner has to admit that among the medical men whom England has produced there are many who belong to the class of genius: Harvey, Sydenham, Willis, Heberden, Jenner, Bright, Addison, Lister, Osler, Fleming and many more occupy a suffici...

introduction: nowadays, science mapping is considered an excellent technique for decision-makers to find solutions for problems in research planning and development. in this work, we aimed to depict a science map of “radiology, nuclear medicine, and medical imaging” in iran. methods: all publications indexed in thomson reuters web of science database in the fields mentioned above with at least ...

establishment of medical research centers at universities and health-related organizations and annually evaluation of their research activities was one of the strategic policies which followed by governmental organization in last decade in order to strengthening the connections between health research system and health system. the aim of this study is to scrutinize the role of medical research ...