COPD Heterogeneity: What This Will Mean in Practice

COPD heterogeneity: what this will mean in practice.

COPD is a complex collection of conditions. All share the feature of limited expiratory air flow. It is a "disease" in the same sense as is "chronic renal failure." Like most other chronic organ failure "diseases," COPD has disparate causes, and patients are heterogeneous in their prognosis and response to treatment. Unlike many other diseases, the heterogeneity of COPD is just beginning to be ...

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The Australian preventive health agenda: what will this mean for workforce development?

The formation of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission (NHHRC) and the National Preventative Task Force in 2008, demonstrate a renewed Australian Government commitment to health reform. The re-focus on prevention, bringing it to the centre of health care has significant implications for health service delivery in the primary health care setting, supportive organisational structure...

Commentary The Australian preventive health agenda : what will this mean for workforce development ?

The formation of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission (NHHRC) and the National Preventative Task Force in 2008, demonstrate a renewed Australian Government commitment to health reform. The re-focus on prevention, bringing it to the centre of health care has significant implications for health service delivery in the primary health care setting, supportive organisational structure...

What will metabolomics studies mean to endocrinology?

Personalized medicine is a key topic for the development of future health-care provisions, even in endocrinology. The objective of personalized medicine is to use state-of-the-art association studies (GWAS), transcriptomics, proteomics as well as metabolomics are able to identify the up to now diagnostics and novel therapeutic interventions that take into account the specific requirements and c...