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Towards a Data Sharing Culture: Recommendations for Leadership from Academic Health Centers
Rebecca Crowley and colleagues propose that academic health centers can and should lead the transition towards a culture of biomedical data sharing.
Key Issues in Conducting a Meta-Analysis of Gene Expression Microarray Datasets
Adaikalavan Ramasamy and colleagues outline seven key issues and suggest a stepwise approach in conducting a meta-analysis of microarray datasets.
Revision Rates after Primary Hip and Knee Replacement in England between 2003 and 2006
Jan van der Meulen and colleagues show that about one in 75 patients with a primary hip or knee replacement needed a revision of their prosthesis within 3 years.

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New once-a-week treatment for type 2 diabetes developed by Mount Sinai researcher
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400
(Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute) In a study published by the Lancet journal today, Toronto researcher Dr. Daniel Drucker reported that a new once-weekly treatment for type 2 diabetes could replace the more common twice-daily injection.
Living sensor can warn of arsenic pollution
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400
(Society for General Microbiology) Scientists studying arsenic pollution have discovered a living sensor that can spot contamination. They have also discovered new bacteria that can clean up arsenic spills even in previously untreatable cold areas, microbiologists heard today (Monday Sept. 8, 2008) at the Society for General Microbiology's Autumn meeting being held this week at Trinity College, Dublin.
Milk may help bacteria survive against low levels of antibiotics
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400
(Society for General Microbiology) Milk may help prevent potentially dangerous bacteria like Staphylococcus from being killed by antibiotics used to treat animals, scientists heard today (Monday Sept. 8, 2008) at the Society for General Microbiology's Autumn meeting being held this week at Trinity College, Dublin.

 

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