Imagine a community hopeful for the future

Osteosarcoma: Accelerating Progress Makes for a Hopeful Future

Patients who develop osteosarcoma in 2017 receive treatment that remains essentially unchanged since the 1970s. Outcomes likewise remain largely unimproved. Large, collaborative, multinational efforts to improve therapy have evaluated strategies leveraging both cytotoxic intensification and immunomodulatory agents. While these have confirmed our capacity to conduct such trials, results have pro...

Conference report : “ 30 years of HIV science . Imagine the future ”

This report present major topics and debates of the symposium “30 years of HIV science. Imagine the future”. It was organized by the Pasteur Institute, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Agence Nationale de Recherche sur le Sida (ANRS) and SIDACTION in celebration of the 30th years since the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as causative agent of the acquired immunod...

A hopeful approach: Understanding the implications for the HOPE Program

Hawaii’s Honest Opportuni­ ty Probation With Enforce­ ment (HOPE) program was developed in 2004 as a way to create a more transparent and accountable probation system. An initial examination of the new probation model was promising enough to prompt multiple eval­ uations of the HOPE program, including three studies funded by the National Institute of Jus­ tice (NIJ). The latest study — the HOPE...

A hopeful beginning for malaria vaccines.

An effective human malaria vaccine has been sought for over 70 years, with little success.1 A successful malaria vaccine used in conjunction with other control interventions would help reduce and eventually eliminate the considerable global disease burden caused by malaria. Many different antigens have been identified as potential targets for malaria-vaccine development. One of these, the repet...

investment on education of future parents: the best measure for enhancement of a community disaster resiliency