BACKGROUND Calls have been made for governments to adopt a cohesive approach to rare diseases through the development of national plans. At present, Australia does not have a national plan for rare diseases. To progress such a plan an inaugural Australian Rare Diseases Symposium was held in Western Australia in April 2011. This paper describes the key issues identified by symposium attendees fo...

1 Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 Cardiovascular Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 3 Policy Alternatives Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Toyko, Japan, 4 Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachuset...

Richard A. Proctor, Barbara Kahl, Christof von Eiff, From the Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Muenster, Germany; and the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pierre E. Vaudaux, Daniel P. Lew, and Georg Peters Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland; and the Departments of Medicine and Medical Microbiology/Immunology, University of Wisconsin, Madison,...

Erin E. Sullivan, PhD, research director, Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care, and lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Zara Ibrahim, researcher, Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care; Andrew L. Ellner, MD, co-director, Center for Primary Care, Harvard Medical School, director, Program in Global Primary Car...

xcessive Antibiotic Use in Men with Prostatitis rent C. Taylor, PhD, MPH, Siamak Noorbaloochi, PhD, Mary McNaughton-Collins, MD, MPH, hristopher S. Saigal, MD, MPH, Min-Woong Sohn, PhD, Michel A. Pontari, MD, Mark S. Litwin, MD, MPH, imothy J. Wilt, MD, MPH, and the Urologic Diseases in America Project Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, M...

ttemational Hippocrates Colloquium ( 13th : 2008 : Austin, Tex.), author. Ancient concepts of the Hippocratic : papers presented at the xmth International Hippocrates olloquium, Austin, Texas, August 2008 / edited by Lesley Dean-Jones and Ralph M. Rosen. p. ; cm. (Studies in ancient medicine, ISSN 0925-1421; volume 46) Includes bibliographical references and index. In English; two papers in Fre...

1 Genital Mucosal HIV and STI Research Group, Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Medical Virology Laboratory, Cape Town, South Africa, 2 Genital Mucosal HIV and STI Research Group, Department of Pathology, Division of Medical Virology, NRF-DST CAPRISA CENTRE OF EXCELENCE, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 3...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study is to identify and review the methodological quality of health economic evaluations of medical devices performed in the People's Republic of China. To our knowledge, no such investigations have been performed to date. METHODS A systematic literature review involving searches of Medline, Medline In-Process, the National Health Service Economic Evaluation ...