Antiretroviral therapy: new solutions bring new problems

Unintended Consequences: New Problems, New Solutions

Objective: To select the best of the 2015 published papers on unintended consequences of healthcare information technology (HIT). Method: Literature searches in several areas of scholarship, including IT, human factors, evaluation studies, medical errors, medical informatics, and implementation science. Also, because the specific terms “unintended consequences” were not often included in abstra...

Obesity and the future. New problems and new solutions.

Introducción Obesity—a modern pandemic: the burden of disease Obesity in children and adolescents. A critical review Developmental origins of obesity and non-communicable disease Epigenetics of obesity and weight loss Tratamiento no farmacológico de la obesidad Tratamiento farmacológico de la obesidad Obesity and type 2 diabetes in renal pathology Adipose tissue lipases and lipolysis The health...

Editorial bring in the new!

The year 2015 has been a year for celebration when Royal Society publishing has marked the 350th anniversary of the first publication of its Philosophical Transactions, the world's first scientific journal that is still going strong Open Biology, by contrast, is now an infant of a little over 4 years old but also thriving. Our aim with Open Biology was to establish an open access journal explor...

Papua New Guinea: enduring problems, radical solutions

Bioreactors – New Solutions for Old Problems

A major effort has been invested in making bioreactors more efficient. The goal has been achieved in several steps. Firstly, a replacement of the traditional rotation movement by an oscillating up and down movement of stirring discs driven by an electromagnet yields several important advantages. A soft, whole volume movement of the medium results in optimal gas distribution throughout the mediu...