evidence-based medicine: false friends don’t make good company
Modern methodologies to establish evidence in biomedical research were pioneered by the Canadian research group around Gordon Guyatt and David Sackett. In 1992, the term ‘evidence-based medicine’ was first used in the medical literature by Guyatt et al. [1], and in 1996, Sackett et al. [2] explained what they
gained in translation: equivalence at word level
the concept of equivalence in translation has long been a bone of contention. this article provides a number of examples of situations in which producing equivalence in translation may be a challenge, e.g., when faced with culture-specific words, differences in expressive meaning between languages, differences in form, or words
GCP: a universal call for ethics in biomedical research
today, the principles of good clinical practice (GCP) form such an integral part of the development of new medicines that they could easily be taken for granted. yet, the road to a universal code of ethics in human experimentation is paved with tragedies which have only gradually led to