No because you need a teacher. Too much is open to misinterpretation. Too many people read Medical journals and think they have every desease. Basic First Aid I think would be a good idea. As the saying goes A little knowledge is a dangerous thing

Not for free, there are probably be people who would cherry pick some of the information and misuse it on their own without the adequate training of those who go through those years of medical school.

Yes and no..yes it would be great for medical students and general interest..but, no as many would abuse this knowledge and possibly use it as a way of making money and endangering lives in the process..

yes, totally agree there!

No. If you want to learn about medical studies, get the right credentials and conduct them yourself.

Yes but that will never happen because there is money to be made keeping it under locks for people to have to pay for it. People arre in the medical profession now because of money and not because they care.

The first 2 years of medical school are studies of basic sciences such as biochemistry and biology, human anatomy.But they also include extensive lab works which can't be learned on the web. The last 2 years are rotating clerkships at various hospitals in different medical specialties such as surgery, medicine, psychiatry, etc. Obviously you can't do that on the web.

Sounds like a good idea to me!

Yes. There is now a new requirement for anyone receiving NIH funding. Manuscripts describing the studies' results must be published in PubMed Central, an open-access database that anyone can consult.

Free Open database system will be appear in the near future. but the matter is which can be trusted and which not.. certainty of the bunch of informations are still on the judgement. -sorry poor english-

Great idea--I would utilize it, that's for sure.

No...there's a reason they're so strict about Med School. You need to have the right background and the right kind of personality for it. It's not something you can simply hop on to.

1) Some of them are. Those which have the best economic applications are often not, for various reasons: - knowledge is power - knowledge gives you an advantage against the competition, so you can make more money - those studies have to be paid somehow There is something very unethical in the fact that the advances in medicine are often a great way to make a lot of money. 2) here an example: "Medical ethics: While bringing many good pharmaceuticals to market, Eli Lilly has sometimes been accused of pushing products to the marketplace with bad research, withholding of research to the public or false advertising. Lilly was cited in lawsuits filed against the manufacturers of diethylstilbestrol (DES), a drug prescribed to women in the 1940s and 1950s to prevent miscarriages. The company was ordered to pay $400,000 in damages from DES even though the complications that developed were not known at the time. Oraflex, the American version of Benoxaprofen, was withdrawn from the market in 1982, just one month after gaining FDA approval. A British medical journal found five cases of death due to jaundice in patients taking the drug and the FDA accused Lilly of suppressing unfavorable research findings. In 1985, the U.S. Justice Department filed criminal charges against the company and Dr. William Ian H. Shedden. Lilly pleaded guilty to 25 criminal counts and paid a $25,000 fine." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Lilly_controversies#Medical_ethics

Many of them are now. All published articles from studies funded by NIH now have to be freely available at the National Library of Medicine's web site, PubMed. Go to pubmed and search for a topic and see if you can get free pdf's of published articles you are interested in.

yes they should be posted .