Press Releases
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Informa Healthcare – one of the world's leading medical and scientific publishers – has announced that its peer-reviewed medical titles will be joining the company’s pharmaceutical science titles to form one, united platform for drug discovery and clinical medicine on www.informahealthcare.com.
Does police success in seizing heroin make a significant difference to the amount of drugs on the streets of Britain? A feature in Informa’s Journal of Substance Use examines the effectiveness of policing and addresses the difficulties in interpreting data on the subject.
New localised research on the prevalence of problem drug use, the estimated number of heroin users, and on the quantity of heroin consumed in Scotland has enabled the report authors (N. McKeganey, J. Casey, J. McGallagly and G. Hay from the Centre for Drug Misuse Research, University of Glasgow) to estimate the proportion of ‘seized’ to ‘consumed’ heroin.
Issues in Mental Health Nursing – published by Informa with the aim of expanding psychiatric mental health nursing knowledge worldwide – is celebrating 30 years of reporting on new, innovative approaches to client care, in-depth analysis of current issues and empirical research in the field.
“We are delighted to mark 30 years of publication,” says Sandra Thomas, Editor of Issues in Mental Health Nursing. “Through the years, IMHN has remained an independent voice of the psychiatric-mental health nursing speciality, providing in-depth, unbiased coverage and analysis of the key issues and developments in our discipline.”
The editors of Disability & Rehabilitation and its sister publication, Disability & Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology have announced an annual award which will be given for the best review paper published in either of the two journals. Commencing in 2009, the Informa Best Review Paper Award will recognise valuable, high-impact research in the fields of disability, rehabilitation and assistive technology.
“The Informa Best Review Paper Award is open to all authors and every review paper published within these two journals during 2009 will be considered,” says Sally Howells, Managing Editor of the two publications at Informa Healthcare.
Lloyd’s List – the flagship newspaper of the global maritime shipping industry and the world’s longest published newspaper – has a new editor-in-chief. Tom Leander, who joins Lloyd’s List from The Economist Group, has more than 20 years of experience in editing newspapers and publications in the economy and finance sectors.
Scrip World Pharmaceutical News journalist, Malini Guha, is the first-ever winner of the Advances in Renal Cancer Journalists’ Award – Europe, presented by The Association of German Medical Journalists at the Fourth European International Kidney Cancer Symposium.
Everyone is blaming H1N1, but could a different strain of influenza be the cause of Mexican deaths? Clinica - the medical technology industry’s leading news source - wonders what implications this would have for Mexico and the rest of the world.
Informa Pharmaceutical Science, the world-renowned medical and scientific publisher, is celebrating the inclusion of two of its titles in the US National Library of Medicine’s MEDLINE Index. Informa’s Journal of Medical Economics (JME) and Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Patents are joining the company’s related titles (including Current Medical Research and Opinion [CMRO] and eight other titles in the Expert Opinion series)...
Virgin Atlantic and Harvard Professor join forces with Informa to provide marketing expertise designed to help manage brands and products through the current economic crisis.
Clinica – the world’s leading medical technology journal - is calling for a public inquiry into the state of asbestos regulation in the UK, in light of discrepancies over the risk of exposure to asbestos at London's Palace of Westminster.
