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BMJ Group ties up with Mobile IQ to provide point-of-care medical information - 23 Jun 2009
Healthcare publisher The BMJ Group, UK, recently announced the launch of a service that allows health professionals across the world to get on-the-spot access to expert opinion, guidelines and the latest clinical evidence on their mobile phone. This service is being made available at no extra cost to all subscribers of Best Practice, a new online decision support tool. Best Practice is designed to help practitioners, medical students and researchers find and effectively use appropriate medical information. Built specifically for point-of-care use, it seeks to help meet the real, diverse and evolving information challenges that health professionals face every day, whether in the surgery, hospital or out in the community. This facility has been made possible through a joint agreement with Mobile IQ for the latter's mobile publishing platform, Fabric. The agreement allows access to any content contained in Best Practice on any mobile device, and the information is fully searchable to ensure easy navigation of the material. Fabric also supports links between mobile devices and e-mails to enable physicians who find an interesting article whilst on the phone can e-mail it to themselves and read it later at their desk. Best Practice covers 10,000 diagnoses and all content is written and peer reviewed by specialists. It provides prescribing information, guideline summaries and expert opinion together with advice on symptom evaluation, test ordering and treatment strategies. Best Practice Mobile is available on mobile phone at http://bp.bmjgroup.mobi or online at http://bestpractice.bmj.com/best-practice/marketing/best-practice-mobile.html Search for more such STM tools/services/products in K-Store
Thomson Reuters announces plans to unify dual listed company structure - 23 Jun 2009
Thomson Reuters, a leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, has announced plans to unify its dual listed company (DLC) structure. Under the initiative, the company plans to withdraw shares from the London Stock Exchange. The Thomson Reuters Board of Directors has unanimously determined that unifying the company's capital structure is in the best interests of all shareholders, as it will consolidate and improve the trading of the company's shares and simplify its capital structure. The proposed unification requires the approval of shareholders of both Thomson Reuters Corporation and Thomson Reuters PLC, voting separately, as well as the UK court approval. The Board recommends that all shareholders vote in favour of unification at shareholder meetings scheduled for August 7, 2009. If unification is approved, Thomson Reuters will remain listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange and will no longer be listed on the London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. Chief Executive Thomas Glocer has played down concerns that Thomson Reuters could lose any UK-based shareholders through the action. Further, he noted that only 5 percent of all shareholders are in the UK, and expressed hope that those shareholders would retain their holdings after the delisting.
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Class action evidence shows Elsevier staff consulted with Merck on Vioxx content - 23 Jun 2009
Staff at STM publisher Elsevier reportedly e-mailed pharmaceutical manufacturer Merck, asking it to select the content it wanted published about its anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx in the Elsevier journal Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine. This has been revealed by documents tendered to a US Federal Court for a class action suit. Elsevier has also reportedly admitted that the journal is a 'single sponsored publication' where most of the content is selected by Merck with some input from Elsevier. The publisher has expressed embarrassment over its role and admitted to not meeting disclosure norms. According to media reports, the petitioner in the class action has called the journal a fake, and a marketing exercise designed to promote Vioxx. It has also been told at the court that Merck included names of certain arthritis experts on the editorial board of the journal without giving them prior information or asking them for their consent. Lead plaintiff Graeme Peterson, on behalf of several other Australians, is suing Merck and its Australian subsidiary Merck, Sharp & Dohme for compensation. He alleges that the company covered up the increased risk of cardiovascular problems associated with the drug much before it withdrew it in September 2004. Merck, however, claims that there is no definitive scientific proof Vioxx caused heart attacks and that it had acted responsibly. E-mail communications between Merck's Australian marketing staff and 'account managers' from Elsevier Australia and Excerpta Medica Communications, a subsidiary of Elsevier, have allegedly revealed how they colluded over content in the journal. The correspondence also details the response to complaints by angry medical experts whose names were listed on the journal's editorial board without their knowledge or consent. Search for more such STM tools/services/products in K-Store
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BMC series accepting case reports again - 23 Jun 2009
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that medical journals in the BMC series have started considering case reports again. The move follows the recent departure of the Journal of Medical Case Reports from BioMed Central's portfolio. BMC Gastroenterology has published the first case report since this policy came to effect. The article, 'The clinicopathologic observation, c-KIT gene mutation and clonal status of gastrointestinal stromal tumor in the sacrum,' by Li Gong and colleagues describes the clinicopathological characterisation of a primary gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the sacrum. Case reports allow the rapid and concise reporting of previously unknown treatment side effects, novel therapeutic approaches, unusual clinical associations and diagnostic dilemmas. They can make a significant contribution to the literature, particularly for medical specialties such as surgery or emergency medicine, where the development of clinical trials can be ethically or methodologically challenging. The medical journals in the BMC series consider reports of unusual or exceptional cases that advance clinical knowledge.
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Inderscience Publishers announces inaugural issues of six new titles - 23 Jun 2009
STM and business publisher Inderscience, Switzerland, recently published the first issues of six new titles. The new titles are: International Journal of Advanced Operations Management; International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling; International Journal of Collaborative Enterprise; International Journal of Environmental Engineering; International Journal of Quality and Innovation; and International Journal of Ultra Wideband Communications and Systems. International Journal of Advanced Operations Management deals with all aspects of advanced operations management and aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice with applications analysing the real situation. The journal will help to define new problem domains and develop new methodologies. A free download of the papers from this first issue is available online at http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=340 International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling deals with all aspects of supply chain modeling. The journal aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice with applications analysing the real situation to improve business performance. A free download of the papers from this first issue is available online at http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=341 International Journal of Collaborative Enterprise deals with new concepts for the systematic integration of methods dealing with people, process and technology that can lead to the development of capability for the design of enterprise. A free download of the papers from this first issue is available online at http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=82 International Journal of Environmental Engineering will deal with environmental protection and innovative solutions to ensure healthy, safe, and efficient industrial operations. It promotes feasible system design, development, and management bringing together the sustainable technologies, people, and sound processes. A free download of the papers from this first issue is available online at http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=309 International Journal of Quality and Innovation encourages the creation of knowledge and the exchange of information on the issues of quality and innovation that businesses face, in particular on how quality and innovation may be integrated into a coherent and powerful strategic package. A free download of the papers from this first issue is available online at http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=305 International Journal of Ultra Wideband Communications and Systems publishes research related to the theory, simulation and practice of different aspects of ultra wideband communications and systems. A free download of the papers from this first issue is available online at http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=335 Search for more such STM tools/services/products in K-Store
AAUP announces cooperative agreement with iPublishCentral - 23 Jun 2009
The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has announced a cooperative agreement with iPublishCentral, a self-service e-content delivery platform from Impelsys, to support its 130 members in pursuing electronic publishing. The partnership provides AAUP members with a discount for using iPublishCentral's e-publishing platform and services through AAUP. iPublishCentral, a self-service digital content publishing, marketing, warehousing and distribution platform, will allow participating AAUP members to market books on the Internet, sell content online, and promote brands and titles across the Web. Among the three core components of iPublishCentral are market, distribute and deliver. In year one of the agreement, AAUP members will benefit from complimentary content hosting services available through iPublishCentral. In subsequent years, members will pay sliding-scale fees based on the number of books they upload to the iPublishCentral site. AAUP will share a small percentage of revenue made from transactions that occur on the AAUP portal using iPublishCentral. Through iPublishCentral, AAUP members can launch their own publishing portals, creating online content products and bundles. They can also monetise their backlist without the overhead of more traditional online content publishing, lengthy development timeframes or pricey infrastructure. Search for more such STM tools/services/products in K-Store
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SMG partners with The Council on Competitiveness to launch State of Innovation summit - 23 Jun 2009
Science media company Seed Media Group (SMG), US, has announced a partnership with The Council on Competitiveness to launch The State of Innovation, a comprehensive programme examining the relationship between science, technology and business and how their convergence can spark a new climate of innovation in America. The event brings together the nation's leading CEOs, university presidents, inventors and researchers in Washington, DC on June 23 to address the role of cross-disciplinary collaboration, public policy, and scientific discovery in advancing innovation in US business. Participants include Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art; Adam Bly, Founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Seed Media Group; George Campbell Jr., President, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; Wayne Clough, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution; Tomás Díaz de la Rubia, Chief Research and Development Officer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Charles O. Holliday Jr., Chairman of DuPont and the Council on Competitiveness; Ray O. Johnson, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Lockheed Martin Corporation; Neri Oxman, Presidential Research Fellow, Design Computation, MIT; David E. Shaw, Chief Scientist, D. E. Shaw Research; and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University; and Edward O. Wilson, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University.
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