Moving the G20’s investment agenda forward

Ethical challenges in biobanking: moving the agenda forward in India.

There is no agreement on the typology and definition of biobanks.The present regulations across countries, including India, focus ongenomic and genetic databases and DNA and cell line biobanking.It is unclear how the range of the holdings of biological samples in diagnostic and research laboratories fall under these regulatory frameworks. Biobank-related research has become very attractive beca...

The intersection of youth, technology, and new media with sexual health: moving the research agenda forward.

Youth bear a significant proportion of the sexually transmitted infection (STI)/HIV burden in the United States, CDC, 2010. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/std/stats09/default.htm, with rates of some STIs increasing among youth of color and young men who have sex with men. Technology use among youth also continues to increase. The ubiquitous nature of technology use among youth offers a multit...

T-cell assays for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection: moving the research agenda forward.

For nearly a century, the tuberculin skin test was the only tool available for the detection of latent tuberculosis infection. A recent breakthrough has been the development of T-cell-based interferon-gamma release assays. Current evidence suggests interferon-gamma release assays have higher specificity than the tuberculin skin test, better correlation with surrogate markers of exposure to Myco...

Computer-aided reading of tuberculosis chest radiography: moving the research agenda forward to inform policy.

Affiliations: McGill International Tuberculosis Centre, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. Respiratory Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada. FIND, Geneva, Switzerland. Dept of Medical Microbiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia. Division of Infectious Disea...

Health in the post-2015 agenda: three considerations in moving forward.