Tweets and blogs have become the norm and there is an ever greater demand for terse and rapid summaries of science and comments on it, further increasing the importance of press releases.
You can read more here... Updated at 5.50pm BST 5.28pm BST Judge Lena Egelin gave a rapid and summary dismissal of the legal challenge to Assange's arrest warrant, but said decision could be appealed, David Crouch reports from the court.
The objective of this review was to perform a rapid evidence summary to determine the prevalence of subaneurysmal aortic aneurysms, growth rates, and risk factors that modulate growth in average-risk men aged 65 years and older.
Disease maps provide a rapid visual summary of complex geographic information and may identify subtle patterns in the data that are missed in tabular presentations.
The use of systematic reviews to produce rapid evidence summaries to inform decision-making is an area where methodology is still developing, although some methodological frameworks have been published.
3 In References 15 and 16, field researchers point out that the methodology of electronic data collection can provide rapid data summaries and facilitate the performance of initial data analysis.
Summary: Rapid technological advances have led to an explosion of biomedical data in recent years.
In summary, rapid HIV scale up has been hugely successful in Nigeria but challenges in patient retention and outcomes continue.
