A petition calling for the NHS to be exempted from an agreement on free trade between the United States and the European Union is to be submitted to Prime Minister David Cameron and England’s health secretary, Jeremy Hunt. The petition hosted by the campaigning organisation 38 Degrees calls on Cameron to ensure that the NHS is not part of the transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP...

BACKGROUND Coronary angioplasty (PTCA) offers improved symptom control over medical treatment in patients with stable angina and single-vessel disease. However, it is uncertain if PTCA is more cost-effective. Cost-shifting could also influence the provision of PTCA. METHODS Data from the only randomised trial comparing PTCA to medical therapy (ACME study) were used with costs from an Australi...

This paper proposes a theory of the impact of product-market competition on managerial decision-making autonomy based on managers’ concern about keeping their incumbency rents (that competition puts at risk), and on the idea that changes in market conditions a¤ect the congruence between the interests of the di¤erent hierarchical levels. The main focus of my analysis is on how changes in market ...

Competing interests None. Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed. Correspondence: Professor Andrew L. Clark Academic Cardiology Hull York Medical School Castle Hill Hospital Castle Road UK-Cottingham HU16 5JQ United Kingdom a.l.clark[at]hull.ac.uk 1 This article was first published in Heart (Heart. 2013;99[21]:1562–6. doi: 10.1136/ heartjnl-2013-304761. Epub 2013 Aug ...

The Association of Pathology Chairs (APC) leads and serves as the voice of academic pathology through engagement, advocacy, education, resource development and networking. In pursuing its goals, APC serves the interests of the profession of pathology as well as academic medical centers and the public at large, and envisions and supports excellence in all missions of academic pathology. The foll...

The use of new technologies to bring back extinct species has recently become a topic widely discussed in the media, partly as the result of a TEDx programme on deextinction [1] at the National Geographic Headquarters, timed to coincide with a National Geographic cover story in April 2013. Two weeks earlier, Stuart Brand, a key proponent of de-extinction, gave his own TED talk [2]. These public...

BACKGROUND Accountability in global health is a commonly invoked though less commonly questioned concept. Critically reflecting on the concept and how it is put into practice, this paper focuses on the who, what, how, and where of accountability, mapping its defining features and considering them with respect to real-world circumstances. Changing dynamics in global health cooperation - such as ...

Dr. Attila Grandpierre is currently a senior scientific researcher at the Konkoly Observatory of Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He obtained his degree of University Doctor in 1977 from the Eötvös Lóránd University, his academic degree candidate of physical sciences in 1984 from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and continued his research at the Konkoly Observatory. Dr. Grandpierre's scientific ...

Biomedical image processing has experienced dramatic expansion, and has been an interdisciplinary research field attracting expertise from applied mathematics, computer sciences, engineering, statistics, physics, biology and medicine. Computer-aided diagnostic processing has already become an important part of clinical routine. Accompanied by a rush of new development of high technology and use...

Some people contend t h a t fetuses have moral s ta tus but less t h a n t h a t of paradigm persons. Many people hold views implying that sent ient animals have moral s t a t u s but less t h a n that of persons. These positions suggest tha t moral s ta tus admits of degrees. Does it? To address this question, we must first clarify what it means to speak of degrees of moral status. The paper b...