New health technologies require development and evaluation ahead of being incorporated into the patient care pathway. In light of the recent publication by Lehoux et al who discuss the role of entrepreneurs, investors and regulators in providing value to new health technologies, we summarise the processes involved in making new health technologies available for use in the United Kingdom.

Objective(s): To investigate the protective effect of glycyrrhizin (GL) on hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury (HIRI).Materials and Methods: Forty SD rats were randomly divided into sham group, HIRI group, GL 100 mg/kg group, and GL 200 mg/kg group. The pathological alterations of liver tissue in each group were observed. The levels of a...

Surface roughness and energy significantly influence protein adsorption on to biomaterials, which, in turn, controls select cellular adhesion to determine the success and longevity of an implant. To understand these relationships at a fundamental level, a model was originally proposed by Khang et al to correlate nanoscale surface properties (specifically, nanoscale roughness and energy) to prot...

Nitric oxide (NO) and NO donors were among the first reported inducers of the tissue-protective protein heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) with a potential for eventual use in humans. Besides other clinically established NO releasing drugs, sodium nitroprusside (SNP) has frequently been employed as an experimental tool to explore effects of NO on HO-1 and other biological targets. In this issue of Molecul...

Cite this article: Ho JC, Pang Y, Luu MN (2015) Effect of Refractive Error and Anisometropia Magnitude on Amblyopia Treatment Outcome. JSM Ophthalmol 3(1): 1028. *Corresponding author Jamie C Ho, Ho Vision Group, 5300 Maryland Way, Suite 160, Brentwood Tennessee 37027, USA, Tel: 615-604-2949, Email: Submitted: 11 November 2014 Accepted: 31 January 2015 Published: 03 February 2015 ISSN: 2333-644...

Boron is a plant nutrient essential for adequate plant growth, yet the range between B deficiency and toxicity levels is rather narrow. Boron adsorption reactions with soil components, particularly sesquioxides, most often regulate the amount of B in the soil solution. The reaction mechanisms of B adsorption on oxides have not been fully characterized, however. Pressure-jump relaxation experime...

Adsorption of DOM by soil has been implicated as a very important factor in controlling the loss of DOM Leaching of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and the associated from ecosystems in stream water (McDowell and Wood, nutrient elements can be a significant form of loss from developing 1984; Nelson et al., 1993; Qualls et al., 2002). Several ecosystems. We studied how the adsorption of dissolved...