Autotransfusion: An Impossible Dream?

Transport Integration - an Impossible Dream?

Transport Integration and an Integrated Transport Policy have been widely espoused for many years, yet remain an ambiguous and ill-defined concept. After featuring strongly in the 1998 Transport Policy White Paper, recently transport integration has received less emphasis. However it appears it is set for a return under the new Transport Secretary, Lord Adonis. This paper explores the meaning o...

Harmonised consent in international research consortia: an impossible dream?

Introduction It is well recognised that it can be difficult for researchers to ensure that proper consent provisions are in place for their research project. If this can be difficult for those conducting a single site study, those difficulties can be compounded when that study becomes a member of an international scientific research consortium. These consortia bring together often diverse group...

Health human resources planning in an interdisciplinary care environment: to dream the impossible dream?

Urban agriculture: long-term strategy or impossible dream?: Lessons from Prospect Farm in Brooklyn, New York.

Proponents of urban agriculture have identified its potential to improve health and the environment but in New York City and other densely developed and populated urban areas, it faces huge challenges because of the shortage of space, cost of land, and the lack of contemporary local food production. However, large portions of the city and metropolitan region do have open land and a history of a...

An old men’s dream

Professor Mahmoud Fathala received the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Hasselt in recognition of his tremendous research on the origin and the advantages of diversity in reproductive health. The following day he gave a memorable lecture on the occasion of a symposium on " Women's Health and diversity " " Imagine a world where no woman is denied her right to health "