BioMed Central Blog Thursday 10 April saw the publication of the Cochrane systematic review on oseltamivir and zanamivir, or Tamiflu (Roche) and Relenza (GlaxoSmithKline) to give them their better-known trade names. In short, the review found that Tamiflu doesn’t work quite as well as we thought; a finding that is the culmination of a four-and-a-half year battle for access to the raw data from the clinical trials. The authors – Jefferson, Heneghan and colleagues – uncovered what they characterized as ‘multisystem failure’, with poorly-defined endpoints and confusion as to the authorship and contribution of the clinical trials. They also found that all studies were conducted against placebo, rather than against current best practice. Overall, the reviewers felt that the published studies were … Read more Scientific journal publishing has undergone significant changes in the last couple of decades with the digital revolution and the rise of open access journals. Read more Read more Read more Read more Read more
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videolectures.net - videolectures.net The Cellular Scale Eliademy, The MOOC Founded By Ex-Nokians, Gets Android App To Benefit The Wider Moodle Community CBTec, the e-learning startup founded by ex-Nokians and members of the now-defunct MeeGo team, has released an Android app for its Eliademy MOOC platform that’s also compatible with the widely used open source VLE Moodle. That’s because both Eliademy and Moodle are based on the same codebase, while in addition it provides CBTec with a nice new revenue stream: The Android app is free for Eliademy users, but will cost 99 cents for use with compatible Moodle installations. In its current form, Eliademy is a free, cloud-based VLE initially competing with legacy players like Blackboard, but CBTec’s broader plan is for it to become a leading MOOC (Massively Open Online Course), pitting it against Kleiner-backed Coursera and many others in the fast-growing MOOC space. To achieve this there’s a heavy focus on localisation from the get-go. Launched in February this year, the platform is already available in 13 languages and is targeting 40 languages by the end of 2013.
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