Health targets in Europe: polity, progress and promise.

Fulfilling its Promise - Information Polity as an International Journal

The Progress and Promise of Health Literacy Research

It brings us great pleasure to present this special issue on health literacy of the Journal of Health Communication. This is the fourth year that the journal has dedicated an issue to this important and evolving topic and we greatly appreciate their continued commitment to this growing area of research. We hope that this year’s special issue will continue to generate discussion and inform futur...

Stroke: Challenges, Progress, and Promise

Melatonin in cancer management: progress and promise.

Physiologic and pharmacologic concentrations of the pineal hormone melatonin have shown chemopreventive, oncostatic, and tumor inhibitory effects in a variety of in vitro and in vivo experimental models of neoplasia. Multiple mechanisms have been suggested for the biological effects of melatonin. Not only does melatonin seem to control development alone but also has the potential to increase th...

Oncolytic Bluetongue Viruses: Promise, Progress, and Perspectives

Humans are sero-negative toward bluetongue viruses (BTVs) since BTVs do not infect normal human cells. Infection and selective degradation of several human cancer cell lines but not normal ones by five US BTV serotypes have been investigated. We determined the susceptibilities of many normal and human cancer cells to BTV infections and made comparative kinetic analyses of their cytopathic effec...