What will it take to bring the internet into the consulting room?

What Will It Take to Cure HIV?

Investigational strategies to attempt HIV cure or remission include very early initiation of antiretroviral therapy to limit the latent HIV reservoir and preinfection vaccination. In the setting of viral suppression, strategies include reactivation of latently infected cells (eg, through "shock" therapy with histone deacetylase inhibitors or other agents); use of broadly neutralizing antibodies...

What will it take to stop obesity?

O besity has reached epidemic proportions in industrialized countries like the United States, resulting in increased morbidity and mortality, decreased productivity and function, and soaring health care costs. In the United States, the explosion of fast food restaurants, with their high-fat, supersized portions containing little nutritive value, is considered a major contributor to obesity. In ...

What will it take to end AIDS in the Americas?

Implementing CER: what will it take?

BACKGROUND Comparative effectiveness research (CER) is undeniably changing how drugs are developed, launched, priced, and reimbursed in the United States. But most organizations are still evaluating what CER can do for them and how and when they can utilize the data. A roundtable of stakeholders, including formulary decision makers, evaluated CER's possible effects on managed care organizations...

Seeing things from the patients' view: what will it take?

Patient centred care has many evangelists but few practitioners. Doctors aspire to a state of grace in which their practice is truly focused on the individual, not on a passing stranger with a set of symptoms. But time is short, pressures great, and financial ligatures too tight. So what could be done to advance the ideal a little faster? Can good teaching and training make the difference, or d...