The German Biomedical Grid Projects at the University Medical Centers in Magdeburg and Göttingen have developed environments for distributed computing in medicine, especially with heterogeneous computing resources in different infrastructures. At the beginning it was a stand-alone computer pool installation, it was translated into virtualized environment in a sub network and finally the install...

A considerable number of robust vocabularies and thesauri have been developed for the healthcare and biomedical domain. No single vocabulary, however; provides complete coverage of the information needs from a public health perspective. The results of an investigation of vocabulary sources for the development of a comprehensive controlled vocabulary for the public health domain at the Centers f...

Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA; Center for American Indian Health Research, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK; Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX; Missouri Breaks Industries Research Inc., Timber Lake, SD; The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY; MedStar Health Research Institut...

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In mid 2002, surveys of active extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) centers in the United States and Canada were conducted via E-mail regarding neonatal equipment and personnel. Seventy-four out of 99 (75%) North American ECMO centers listed in the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) directory responded to the survey. Of the responding centers, 95% use roller pumps, and the re...

Simranjit K. Sidhu, Joshua C. Weavil, Massimo Venturelli, Matthew J. Rossman, Benjamin S. Gmelch, Amber D. Bledsoe, Russell S. Richardson, and Markus Amann Departments of Internal Medicine and Exercise and Sport Science, University of Utah, Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Centers, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Department of Anesthesiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Ut...

Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) has spread worldwide and poses various challenges to healthcare services. The limited supply of medical personal-protective equipment affected the ability many countries respond crisis. Three-dimensional printing (3DP) is well suited addressing these shortages. We assessed role 3DP during COVID-19 outbreak in hospitals France. Retrospective survey. included que...

the importance of nanotechnology in medical technologies, especially biomedical diagnostics, is indubitable. by taking advantages of nanomaterials, many medical diagnostics methods have been developed so far, including electrochemical nanobiosensors. they have been used for quantification of different clinical biomarkers for detecting, screening, or follow up a disease. micrornas (mirnas) are o...

introduction: graduate (phd) students in medical sciences, who will form future faculties and investigators in iran’s universities of medical sciences, are not trained on scientific writing during their training. the present study describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of principles of writing biomedical research paper course. methods: the course, prepared based on an extensive se...