Press Release: Launch of Faculty of 1000 Medicine

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PRESS RELEASE: 23 January 2006

LAUNCH OF FACULTY OF 1000 MEDICINE

Faculty of 1000 Medicine, a major new online service designed to 
help medics keep abreast of the most important new research, was 
launched today. Run by a team of almost 2500 of the world's 
leading researchers and clinicians, Faculty of 1000 Medicine 
provides a consensus view of important articles and trends across 
medicine. The continuously updated service, found at 
www.f1000medicine.com, will be available to institutional and 
personal subscribers.

Faculty of 1000 Medicine offers similar functionality and 
organisation to its sister service, the highly successful Faculty 
of 1000 Biology, to which more than 80% of the world's top 
institutions subscribe. Faculty Members submit short evaluations 
of 2-3 interesting articles that they have read in the previous 
month, providing an article rating (the F1000 factor), as well as 
information about the article type and specialties it will be of 
interest to. The Faculty of 1000 Medicine in-house team then 
carefully check the evaluations to ensure they are concise and 
user-friendly, aiming to get new evaluations on the site within 
two working days.  The comprehensive medical coverage complements 
the biological focus of Faculty of 1000 Biology 
(www.f1000biology.com).

A new feature exclusive to Faculty of 1000 Medicine is the 
Clinical Impact label highlighting research findings that Faculty 
Members think will have an immediate effect on clinical practice.

Faculty of 1000 Medicine is headed by an International Advisory 
Board of world leaders in medicine including Steven Hyman, 
Provost of Harvard University, and Sir Keith Peters, Emeritus 
Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge University. Divided into 
18 Faculties, the service covers the whole of medicine - from 
Anesthesiology & Pain Management to Women's Health. The Faculty 
is further divided into approximately 200 Sections representing 
specific research areas, which are cross-indexed to reflect the 
interdisciplinary nature of medicine.

Jean-Louis Vincent, Head of Faculty for Critical Care & Emergency 
Medicine, welcomes the launch of Faculty of 1000 Medicine:

"Faculty of 1000 Medicine is exactly what researchers and 
clinicians need to keep up to date with the most important 
developments in their specialty and related fields. It is 
impossible to read all of the articles that one should, and 
medicine is becoming more and more interdisciplinary. Timely, 
concise evaluations from peers that one respects are a lifeline 
in the sea of literature."

Faculty of 1000 Medicine offers the most comprehensive literature 
evaluation service on the market, covering more fields of 
medicine than any other. Faculty Members are free to evaluate 
articles from any journal they choose. This flexibility leads to 
the identification of Hidden Jewels, articles evaluated from less 
widely read journals, which readers may otherwise have missed but 
which rate highly according to Faculty Members.

Evaluations are systematically organised according to subject 
keywords and are cross-linked to make it easy for users to find 
evaluations of interest to their specialty.  Users can also 
customize the service to their interests and opt for regular 
updates by email, including stored searches on keywords of 
interest, at a frequency that suits them.

Faculty of 1000 Medicine has been eagerly awaited by many 
individuals and institutions, and has already attracted advance 
institutional sales and trials.

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About Faculty of 1000 Medicine

Faculty of 1000 Medicine is the next-generation literature 
evaluation and awareness service for medicine. Based on the 
recommendations of a selected Faculty of nearly 2500 leading, 
international researchers and clinicians, it will systematically 
highlight and review the most pertinent papers in any field of 
medicine. The International Advisory Board and Heads of each 
Faculty are listed below.

International Advisory Board
Steven Hyman
Provost, Harvard University
Sir Keith Peters
Emeritus Regius Professor of Physic, Cambridge University
Alan Schechter
Chief, Laboratory of Clinical Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Judith Swain
Arthur L Bloomfield Professor of Medicine, Stanford University Chair, Dept of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
Hans Wigzell
Director, Centre of Medical Information, Karolinska Institute

Heads of Faculty

ANESTHESIOLOGY & PAIN MANAGEMENT
Mervyn Maze, Ronald Miller

CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS
Eric Topol, Frans Van de Werf

CRITICAL CARE & EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Jesse Hall, Jean-Louis Vincent

DERMATOLOGY
Stephen Katz, Georg Stingl

DIABETES & ENDOCRINOLOGY
Ele Ferrannini, Allen Spiegel

EVIDENCE BASED HEALTH CARE
Paul Glasziou, Ralph Horwitz

GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY
Michael Farthing, Nicholas LaRusso

HEMATOLOGY
Edward Benz, Eliane Gluckman

INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Robert Gallo, Mervyn Shapiro, Nick White

NEPHROLOGY
Barry Brenner

NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS
Richard Frackowiak, Guy McKhann

ONCOLOGY
George Canellos, Herbert Pinedo

PSYCHIATRY
Dennis Charney, Julien Mendlewicz

PUBLIC HEALTH & EPIDEMIOLOGY
Barry Bloom, Sir Michael Marmot

RESPIRATORY DISORDERS
Peter Barnes, James Crapo

RHEUMATOLOGY & CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY
Peter Lipsky, Sir Ravinder Maini

UROLOGY
David Neal, Peter Scardino

WOMEN'S HEALTH
Linda Guidice, Lesley Regan

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