There’s an emerging marketplace for an Uber approach to medicine. Several startup companies, including Doctors Making House Calls (North Carolina), Pager (New York City), Heal (Los Angeles), Go2Nurse (Chicago and Milwaukee) and MedZed (Atlanta), are enabling patients to have a doctor or nurse come directly to their homes at the flick of an app. The on-demand approach to medicine is still in its infancy and there are signs it is converging with traditional medicine, not breaking away from it. The sector’s oldest company, Medicast, founded in 2013, recently abandoned its direct-to-consumer model in favor of collaborating with large hospital networks. The company recently helped Providence Health & Services — a medical system in the Pacific Northwest — launch its own house call app for the Seattle area.
New Open-Access Pharmacology and Therapeutics Titles
Several new open access titles from @DovePress have been added to the library’s eJournal collection. The following relate to pharmacology and therapeutics:
• Biologics: Targets and Therapy
• Biosimilars
• Clinical Pharmacology: Advances and Applications
• ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research
• Drug Design, Development and Therapy
• Drug, Healthcare and Patient Safety
• ImmunoTargets and Therapy
• Integrated Pharmacy Research and Practice
• International Journal of Nanomedicine
• Journal of Experimental Pharmacology
• Open Access Journal of Clinical Trials
• Orphan Drugs: Research and Reviews
• Patient Preference and Adherence
• Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine
• Research and Reports in Medicinal Chemistry
• Research and Reports in Transdermal Drug Delivery
• Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management
Authors interested in publishing in any of the Dove Medical Press journals, should consult their Author Guidelines.
The Grants Process: The Lifecycle of a Grant
The NCI grants process was designed to ensure that applications proposing the most promising scientific research projects are evaluated and awarded, and that the proposed scientific aims are completed.
See the NCI Grants Process for a quick overview as well as an in-depth look at the 6-step application process, NCI’s research funding mechanisms, the Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR) and the administrative requirements for grant closing.
You can also download the PDF, The Grants Process, The Lifecycle of a Grant for additional history and references.