Analytic approaches for research priority-setting: issues, challenges and the way forward

Health Systems Research in Pakistan: Issues, Challenges and Way Forward.

Translational Research and Complexity of Clinical Practice: Issues, Challenges, and Way Forward.

Research in Unani Medicine: Challenges and Way Forward

Unani system of medicine is one of the oldest systems of medicine and existence of this system till now itself is an evidence of validity of its principles. However, the essence of any science is progress based on a continuous quest for new knowledge through research, development and newer applications. Unani medicine too should not be exception to this. With the same objective, Government of I...

Resources, challenges and way forward in rare mitochondrial diseases research

Over 300 million people are affected by about 7000 rare diseases globally. There are tremendous resource limitations and challenges in driving research and drug development for rare diseases. Hence, innovative approaches are needed to identify potential solutions. This review focuses on the resources developed over the past years for analysis of genome data towards understanding disease biology...

False positives and false negatives in functional near-infrared spectroscopy: issues, challenges, and the way forward.

We highlight a significant problem that needs to be considered and addressed when performing functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) studies, namely the possibility of inadvertently measuring fNIRS hemodynamic responses that are not due to neurovascular coupling. These can be misinterpreted as brain activity, i.e., "false positives" (errors caused by wrongly assigning a detected hemodynam...