Epidemiologic Models, Key Logs, and Realizing the Promise of WHA 54.19

Epidemiologic Models, Key Logs, and Realizing the Promise of WHA 54.19

During the late 1800s, when trees were cut by handsaw and the logs floated down river by the hundreds to be milled, they occasionally jammed. Skilled lumberjacks could often identify a single ‘‘key log,’’ which, once released, opened the way for all the logs to continue their journey. The study by Anderson and colleagues in this issue of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases [1] points to the presen...

StemCONN: Realizing the Promise

On April 3, 2013, the fourth biennial StemCONN conference took place at the Omni Hotel at Yale in New Haven, Connecticut. This conference featured talks by scientists from across the country who are currently at the forefront of stem cell research, as well as talks by Edison Liu, President and CEO of the Jackson Laboratory, and Jonathan Rotherberg, PhD, a Yale alumnus and Ion Torrent Systems Fo...

Sustaining and realizing the promise of telemedicine.

Realizing the promise of personalized medicine.

Scientific advances have begun to give doctors the power to customize therapy for individuals. However, adoption of this approach has progressed slowly and unevenly because the trial-and-error treatment model still governs how the health care system develops, regulates, pays for, and delivers therapies. Aspinall, the president of Genzyme Genetics, and Hamermesh, chair of a Harvard Business Scho...

Preface Realizing the Promise of Electronic Government

i The drive to implement electronic government (e-government) has become a pervasive global phenomenon. Countries around the world, from highly developed ones such as the United States to very small island states like Malta and Mauritius, have committed substantial resources to creating the environment and infrastructure for doing business electronically with their citizens, businesses, and oth...