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Journal of Participatory Medicine JPM will be a peer reviewed journal published exclusively in an online journal format, using Open Journal Systems, an open source journal management and publishing system developed by the Public Knowledge Project.

Evidence-Based Research: a series of tutorials for medical and healthcare professionals and students wanting to improve their skills in conducting research geared toward clinical use, this 12-month session is offered by the Journal Club. In addition to the tutorials, you will gain full-text access to all journals in the library at the University of Bridgeport. Only $225 for all tutorials, and for a full year of full-text access to all of the library's digital resources!

Evidence-Based Research: a series of tutorials for medical and healthcare professionals and students wanting to improve their skills in conducting research geared toward clinical use, this 12-month session is offered by the University of Bridgeport's Journal Club. In addition to the tutorials, you will gain full-text access to all journals in the UB library. Only $225 for all tutorials and one year of full-text access to all of the library's digital resources!

Professional medical journals that provide full text articles or entirely open access to non-subscribers.

Doctor's blog posted on the BMJ (British Medical Journal) social networking site, Doc2Doc

Participatory medicine will owe part of its success to the technologies that have the potential to remove treatment, symptom management, administrative, and communications burdens from individuals and clinicians while maintaining the critical interpersonal interactions between them. Out of the steady stream of new devices, programs, gadgets, and applications, which will make a difference in the health and lives of patients? We hope to build the Journal as a resource for critical reviews of technologies that support and facilitate participatory medicine. We realize it will be no small undertaking to put together a process that will allow for the review of a substantial number of technologies over time, reflecting the experience of different types of users.

The Scientist published that "Merck paid an undisclosed sum to Elsevier to produce several volumes of a publication that had the look of a peer-reviewed medical journal, but contained only reprinted or summarized articles--most of which presented data favorable to Merck products--that appeared to act solely as marketing tools with no disclosure of company sponsorship. "

In the world of medicine, "key opinion leader" is the somewhat Orwellian term used to describe the senior doctors who help drug companies sell drugs. : BMJ : British Medical Journal

Rhabdomyolysis is more frequent than reported in medical journals, by pharmaceutical companies, and other standard avenues of information on adverse side effects in drugs. Polyneuropathy is an increased risk in diabetics... [I must FIND STUDIES, ETC. to support this blogpost]

Pitavastatin: Efficacy and Safety Profiles of A Novel Synthetic HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitor

Fewer than half of all clinical trials recently published in journals with high impact factors are adequately registered, and about a third of those that are registered properly show discrepancies between the registered primary outcome and the one that actually gets reported.

What is the future of peer review? Why is there fraud in science? Is plagiarism out of control? Why do scientists do bad things? Is it all a case of:"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing?"