Ethics at crossroads: Global guidelines vs. local laws

Global Health Governance at a Crossroads.

This review takes stock of the global health governance (GHG) literature. We address the transition from international health governance (IHG) to global health governance, identify major actors, and explain some challenges and successes in GHG. We analyze the framing of health as national security, human security, human rights, and global public good, and the implications of these various frame...

Global response to malaria at crossroads

Academic Pressure and Research Ethics at the Crossroads.

Healthcare professionals become research scientists to improve the health and well-being of humankind. Often stemming from clinical observations, the process of writing a proposal to investigate the problem, obtaining funding, conducting the study, and disseminating findings takes considerably longer than the expectations of productivity in grant funding and publishing manuscripts for faculty o...

Local vs . Global : Intelligent Local Face Recognition

Face recognition in real world applications is a very difficult task because of image misalignments, pose and illumination variations, or occlusions. Many researchers in this field have investigated both face representation and classification techniques able to deal with these drawbacks. However, none of them is free from limitations. Early proposed algorithms were generally holistic, in the se...

Implantology and Prothodontics at Crossroads - Classic vs. Modern Treatment Concepts

Lost teeth reduce the oral health related quality of life significantly and affect the psychological state of the person concerned negatively. Nowadays, replacement of teeth with implants is a common procedure and patients embrace the possibilities to restore their quality of life. As there are numerous ways to restore a patient’s dentition, this article exemplarily uses two case reports to ill...