Cures vs. profits
Subtitle: successes in translational research
By: James Lyons-Weiler, Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge, USA
Publisher: World Scientific; World Scientific Publishing Company; WSPC
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9789814730136; 9789814730143
Subjects: Medicine; Moral and ethical aspects; Research; Medical innovations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Abuses in medicine; title: Outrageous acts of pseudoscience; title: Wait, grapefruit is bad for you?; title: Hormone receptor status and breast cancer treatment; title: Fecal microbiota transplantation; title: Overdiagnosis of ADHD: it's their mind, not yours; title: Vaccination programs: eradication of infectious diseases; title: Chemosensitivity and chemoresistance assays in cancer; title: A very special kind of brain cancer surgery; title: Genomics and personalized medicine; title: Robot-guided surgery; title: Hallmarks and principles of translational research success; title: Future medicine 1: early detection and cures for Alzheimer's disease; title: Future medicine 2: cancer vaccines; title: The future of translational research.