Regulatory Realities and Hopes

Personalised medicines: hopes and realities

Therapeutic vaccines: realities of today and hopes for tomorrow.

V are prophylactic in the sense that they are administered to healthy individuals to prevent a disease. Nevertheless, there is a growing trend to use vaccines to alleviate the suffering of those already with disease. Great effort is being devoted to developing therapeutic vaccines against tumors, AIDS, hepatitis B, tuberculosis, malaria, and possibly against the bacteria that cause gastric ulce...

Hopes and realities of public health accountability policies.

Holding local boards of health accountable presents challenges related to governance and funding arrangements. These challenges result in (a) multiple accountability pressures, (b) population health outcomes whose change is measureable only over long time periods and (c) board of health activity that is often not the key immediate direct contributor to achieving desired outcomes. We examined ho...

Housing the chronically homeless: high hopes, complex realities.

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Domino liver transplantation using FAP grafts. HUC experience--hopes and realities.

Domino liver transplantation using FAP livers (DLTx/FAP) has become a worldwide strategy that is contributing significantly to the increase in liver grafts offered in Portugal. The safety of the procedure both in the FAP donors and in the recipients is emphasized in the series of 64 DLTx/FAP that has already been performed in the Hospital of the University of Coimbra (HUC). The occurrence of am...