Microwave technologies in medical and environmental practice.

NICE medical technologies guidance: aims for clinical practice

NICE (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) produces a range of advice and guidance on medical practice and technologies. NICE was established in 1999, and in 2009 set up its Medical Technologies Evaluation Programme. This assesses new devices in terms of whether their use would offer benefits to the patient and NHS at a lower cost compared with current practice, or increased b...

Diagnostic Technologies in Practice

Diagnosing HIV-positive gay men through enhanced testing technologies that detect acute HIV infection (AHI) or recent HIV infection provides opportunities for individual and population health benefits. We recruited 25 men in British Columbia who received an acute (n = 13) or recent (n = 12) HIV diagnosis to engage in a longitudinal multiple-methods study over one year or longer. Our thematic an...

MEMS and BST Technologies for Microwave Applications

2002 v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS For the past four years I owe a lot to my advisory committee, my friends, my family, and many other people who always supported me, without whom it is almost impossible for me to get this work done. Care and support from all these people gave me the confidence, their encouragement means so much to me throughout those countless hard-working days and nights. I am deeply gr...

Role of New Technologies in Medical Continual Training

Continual medical training has been regarded as necessary case for preserving and promoting skills of graduates of medicine on which basis continual curricula of medical society are being executed in order to promote job knowledge and skills and improve provision of health-therapeutic services in the country. Now, after some years of continual curricula commencement, this question about effe...

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF ENERGY-EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGIES: POTENTIAL FOR INPUT-OUTPUT AND SUPPLY-CHAIN ANALYSES IN IRAN