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Personalised Medicine in National Cancer Plans: How Can Innovation Be Translated Into Policy?
2014
ABSTRACT Stratified, precision or personalised medicine (PM) is emerging as one of the most important areas of clinical innovation in cancer care. Yet, implementing policies to translate these innovations to practice entails deep changes, including in how patient information is treated, how funding is allocated, how diagnostic tests are validated and carried out, how care is organised, how clinical trials are conducted and how new drugs are approved. National Cancer Control Programmes (NCCPs), for their part, have emerged as the primary instrument to coordinate the range of cancer control policies within individual countries, and virtually all European countries have adopted one. This means…
Validating an Efficient Method to Quantify Motion Sickness
2011
Objective: Motion sickness (MS) can be a debilitating side effect associated with motion in real or virtual environments. We analyzed the effect of expectancy on MS and propose and validate a fast and simple MS measure.Background: Several questionnaires measure MS before or after stimulus presentation, but no satisfactory tool has been established to quickly capture MS data during exposure. To fill this gap, we introduce the Fast MS Scale (FMS), a verbal rating scale ranging from zero (no sickness at all) to 20 (frank sickness). Also, little is known about the role of expectancy effects in MS studies. We conducted an experiment that addressed this issue.Method: For this study, 126 volunteer…
China’s intellectual property rights provocation: A political economy view
2019
It is well recognized that intellectual property rights (IPR) violations are at the heart of the economic conflict with China. Little agreement, however, exists about the origin and solutions for this provocation. Broadly speaking, two prescriptions have been proposed: the natural evolutionary and the rule of law views. While both have merits and add to our understanding, they do not go far enough to address the more fundamental IPR policy issue: China has benefited from a rule of law overseas and a rule through law at home, manufacturing unfair advantage to its firms, many of which are owned and/or influenced by the government. While recognizing China’s recent effort in improving IPR prote…
Erratum to: ‘A cost and performance comparison of Public Private Partnership and public hospitals in Spain’
2016
Public-private partnership (PPP) initiatives are extending around the world, especially in Europe, as an innovation to traditional public health systems, with the intention of making them more efficient.There is a varied range of PPP models with different degrees of responsibility from simple public sector contracts with the private, up to the complete privatisation of the service. As such, we may say the involvement of the private sector embraces the development, financing and provision of public infrastructures and delivery services.In this paper, one of the oldest PPP initiatives developed in Spain and transferred to other European and Latin American countries is evaluated for first time…
Conflict of interest reporting in dentistry meta-analyses: A systematic review
2013
Objectives: The issue of reporting conflicts of interest (COI) in medical research has come under scrutiny over the past decade. Absolute transparency is important when dealing with conflicts of interest to provide readers with all essential information required to make an informative decision of the results. The key objective of this study was to examine the prevalence of reporting conflicts of interest in therapeutic dental meta-analyses of Randomized Control Trials (RCTs), and to investigate possible associations with other categorical variables. Study Design: We conducted an extensive literature search across multiple databases to search for relevant review articles for this study. We u…
Presurgical evaluation of hemifacial spasm and spasmodic torticollis caused by a neurovascular conflict from AICA with 3T MRI integrated by 3D drive …
2014
Background: Hemifacial spasm (HS) and spasmodic torticollis (ST) are well-known disorders that are caused by a neurovascular conflict. HS is characterized by irregular, involuntary muscle contractions on one side of the face due to spasms of orbicularis oris and orbicularis oculi muscles, and is usually caused by vascular compression of the VII cranial nerve. ST is an extremely painful chronic movement disorder causing the neck to involuntary turn to the side, upward and/or downward. HS is usually idiopathic but it is rarely caused by a neurovascular conflict with the XI cranial nerve. Case Description: We present a case of a 36-year-old woman with a 2-year history of left hemifacial spasm …
La Justicia Medioambiental y su posible introducción en el Ordenamiento Jurídico Español
2014
La tesis se centra en el concepto de la Justicia Medioambiental, entendida como “el trato justo y la participación significativa de todas las personas, sin consideración de raza, color, origen nacional o posición económica, en el desarrollo, implementación y cumplimiento de las leyes, reglamentaciones y políticas medioambientales”. La tesis analiza el surgimiento del movimiento de la Justicia medioambiental en los Estados Unidos en la década de los ochenta del siglo XX, y realiza un recorrido histórico por las fases de consolidación y de posterior expansión del mismo en suelo europeo. Describe el marco de la justicia medioambiental, entendido como un modelo de análisis de los conflictos med…
Sex-specific effects of natural and sexual selection on the evolution of life span and ageing in Drosophila simulans
2014
Summary Variation in the strength of age-dependent natural selection shapes differences in ageing rates across species and populations. Likewise, sexual selection can promote divergent patterns of senescence across the sexes. However, the effects of these processes on the evolution of ageing have largely been considered independently, and interactions between them are poorly understood. We use experimental evolution to investigate how natural and sexual selection affect life span and ageing in Drosophila simulans. Replicate populations were evolved under lifetime monogamy (relaxed sexual selection) or lifetime polyandry (elevated sexual selection) and at one of two temperatures, 25 °C (rela…
Discursos y percepciones en torno a la naturaleza protegida. El Parque natural del Estrecho
2019
Definir espacios naturales protegidos no es una tarea sencilla. Hemos asistido a una explosión sin precedentes de los mismos, que afecta tanto a su número como a su extensión territorial. Desde un prisma institucional podemos afirmar que es una demarcación administrativa, establecida con la finalidad de favorecer la conservación de la naturaleza, creada bajo la idea de preservar un enclave o una porción de la naturaleza que se considera privilegiada. Sin embargo, fuera de este prisma, asumimos que las áreas protegidas conllevan procesos complejos que entran en conflicto con la reduccionista interpretación medioambiental. Ésta afecta tanto al territorio como a sus habitantes, regulando la ‘n…
Trauma y silencio: La memoria informativa de la toma y retoma del palacio de justicia (noviembre 6 y 7 de 1985)
2021
El objetivo principal de esta investigación es describir las representaciones producidas por el periodismo y los medios informativos (prensa y redes sociales) sobre la toma y la retoma del Palacio de Justicia, con el propósito de analizar su papel en la construcción de la memoria social-colectiva del acontecimiento. Por ello, las fuentes principales en las que se basó este trabajo incluyen editoriales, columnas de opinión, noticias, reportajes, crónicas, productos multimedia y comentarios en redes sociales, que dieran cuenta del tema de la toma y retoma del Palacio de Justicia entre 1985 y 2017, con el propósito de poseer un panorama amplio del tema y así lograr identificar el proceso de co…