Philip Francis Malim

Francis Barr

influenza programme chief, reported an increase in the number of cluster cases reported recently, with the biggest being a family of five cases. There have been seven cluster cases in Vietnam, all within single families, most recently in the northern province of Haiphong. No relative has been proved to have passed the disease to another in these cases but, Horby said, " the onset dates could be...

Francis Wolenski

Betty Philip

The colon is a site where both local and systemic delivery of drugs can take place. Local delivery allows topical treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. However, treatment can be made effective if the drugs can be targeted directly into the colon, thereby reducing the systemic side effects. This review, mainly compares the primary approaches for CDDS (Colon Specific Drug Delivery) namely prod...

Philip Benfey

In a recent review, Gurr and colleagues have surveyed the threats from emerging and spreading fungal diseases both to crops and to wildlife (Nature (2012) 484, 186–194). While it is common that pathogenic viruses or bacteria and their hosts co-evolve in ways that enable the survival and relatively peaceful co-existence of both — as for instance with the zoonoses that became ‘childhood diseases’...

© Philip Potter 2006

This paper reports on evaluation methodology applied in the Experimental Housing and Urban Design program (Experimenteller Wohnungsund Städtebau Exwost) of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Construction and Urban Development (Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung) in Germany. The specific context is the current (2004-2006) program 'Potentials of Housing Cooperatives' (Genosse...