BACKGROUND Priority setting is one of the major issues in the health research system and no health system can afford to pay for every research they want to do, particularly in developing countries, so we decided to set the national main areas of the health research priorities. METHODS In this study, according to Essential National Health Research (ENHR) strategy and with cooperation of all th...

Over the last quarter of a century there has been an emergence of a tissue engineering industry, one that has now evolved into the broader area of regenerative medicine. There have been 'ups and downs' in this industry; however, it now appears to be on a track that may be described as 'back to the future'. The latest data indicate that for 2007 the private sector activity in the world for this ...

Pharmaceutical research and development is increasingly focused on niche markets, most notably treatments for rare diseases and "personalized" medicine. Drawing on the results of a qualitative study of 34 key Canadian stakeholders (including drug regulators, funders, scientists, policy experts, pharmaceutical industry representatives, and patient advocates), we explore the major trends that are...

On November 20th 2014, the Japanese legislature passed the new Act on the Safety of Regenerative Medicine (ASRM) and the revised Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, and Other Therapeutic Products Act (PMD Act) [1]. It is hard to make that sentence sound exciting, but what many outsiders have yet to fully appreciate is the tectonic shift in Japanese pharmaceutical regulatory policy this represents...

Now in its 8th year, the Yale Healthcare Conference has arguably come upon its most exciting and dramatic time within the U.S. health care system. Dynamic speakers from all over the country came together in April 2012 at Yale University to question, debate, creatively think, and examine challenges within health care organizations and institutions. One of the most prominent issues concerned the ...

Thymus serpyllum L. (wild thyme) is a perennial shrub, native to areas of northern and central Europe. Its aerial parts are most frequently used in ethnomedicine (mainly for treating illnesses and problems related to the respiratory and gastrointestinal systems), although recently its essential oils are becoming more popular as an important plant-derived product. The composition of these oils i...

R.M. FRANCIS, F.H. ANDERSON, S. PATEL, O. SAHOTA and T.P. VAN STAA From the School of Clinical Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, Geriatric Medicine Group, University of Southampton, Southampton, Department of Rheumatology, St Helier Hospital, Carshalton, Department of Health Care of the Elderly, Queen’s Medical Centre, University Hospital, Nottingham, UK ...

This study compares three types of project teams in a global high-tech organization: traditional (co-located), virtual (completely distributed), and ‘semi-virtual’ or hybrid (containing both local and remote members). We use in-group/out-group theories of subgroups to help explain the findings. Specifically, local members of semi-virtual teams report much more positive perceptions of their loca...

The use of natural medicinal products in modern medicine as complementary and alternative therapies is of the increase globally. More so in developing and third world countries where the cost of research and development of synthetic drugs is prohibitive and technological facilities as well as expertise are lacking. These, coupled with the crumbling health care management systems in many of such...