Electrochemotherapy: from the drawing board into medical practice

Electrochemotherapy: from the drawing board into medical practice

Electrochemotherapy is a local treatment of cancer employing electric pulses to improve transmembrane transfer of cytotoxic drugs. In this paper we discuss electrochemotherapy from the perspective of biomedical engineering and review the steps needed to move such a treatment from initial prototypes into clinical practice. In the paper also basic theory of electrochemotherapy and preclinical stu...

Back to the Drawing Board?

This paper reports on the results of a survey conducted within the Department of Design and Technology, Loughborough University, UK, in response to increasing concern over the quality and effective use of 2D modelling by design undergraduates at all levels. A survey, in the form of a questionnaire supported by ongoing tutorials, was conducted in an attempt to establish the underlying reasons wh...

Digital Hospitals Move Off the Drawing Board

Back to the drawing board for macroeconomics

In November 2010, European Central Bank (ECB) the then Governor, Jean-Claude Trichet, opened the ECBs flagship annual Central Banking Conference. He challenged the scientific community to develop radically new approaches to understanding the economy: ‘When the crisis came, the serious limitations of existing economic and financial models immediately became apparent. Macro models failed to predi...

Treatment of nail psoriasis: best practice recommendations from the Medical Board of the National Psoriasis Foundation.

IMPORTANCE Nail psoriasis can be difficult to treat and has a significant effect on quality of life. Relatively few controlled trials evaluating treatments for nail psoriasis have been published. There is an unmet need for treatment recommendations to guide therapeutic decisions. OBJECTIVE To develop treatment recommendations for nail psoriasis from the Medical Board of the National Psoriasis...