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.

Book details Edited by: Stephan Olariu, Albert Y Zomaya. from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA, and University of Sidney, Sidney, Australia, respectively, Chapman & Hall/ CRC, Boca Raton, FL, USA; 2006:679pp. 85 contributors, including the editors, from 17 countries. Section I: MODELS AND PARADIGMS, with 11 chapters. Section II: APPLICATION DOMAINS, with 25 chapters International Stand...

Correspondence to: Dr D J Powrie, Academic Unit of Respiratory Medicine, Dominion House, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London EC1A 7BE, UK; duncanpowrie@ hotmail.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T he Winter Meeting of the BTS affords us the opportunity to catch up with friends and colleagues and to keep abreast of recent advances. Perhaps most importantly, it is also an ideal foru...

This study assesses the detectability of external influences in changes of precipitation extremes in the twentieth century, which is explored through a perfect model analysis with an ensemble of coupled global climate model (GCM) simulations. Three indices of precipitation extremes are defined from the generalized extreme value (GEV) distribution: the 20-year return value (P20), the median (Pm)...

1 Earth to Ocean Research Group, Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada 2 School of Resource & Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada 3 IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Species Programme Species Survival Commission (SSC) and Conservation International (CI...

1 University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Computer Science, 430 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, USA, [email protected] 2 Old Dominion University, Department of Computer Science, 3300 ECS Building, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA, [email protected] 3 University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Computer Science, 430 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, USA, [email protected] 4 Columbia Univers...