Extending life brings conceptual as well as technological challenges

liver transplantation for quality as well as quantity of life

Liver Transplantation for Quality as well as Quantity of Life

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Monitoring of quality of life after liver transplantation is a step toward patient centered care, but unfortunately a comprehensive and scientific instrument for this evaluation is not yet available. Background medical and mental condition of patients as well as social and economic support of the patients should be considered fo...

People challenges? CROWDSOURCING brings solutions

Hysterectomy--a life-saving as well as a life-enhancing operation?

Hysterectomy with or without oophorectomy continues to receive a bad press in lay magazines as well as professional journals when the facts belie such a judgement. Hardly an article fails to inform the public that the operation commonly results in depression, loss of libido, anxiety and marital problems when in most cases and virtually all studies the opposite is true. It is clearly understood ...

A Novel Conceptual Model for Accessing Distributed Data and Applications, as well as Devices

As data and services are increasingly distributed in the network, rather than stored in a fixed location, one can imagine a scenario in which the Personal Computer, intended as a static workstation, is really disappearing. In such a scenario, users’ interactions are going to be mediated by ad-hoc connected devices, whose specific functionalities enable people to interact with data and services ...