Public Health Programs Today and Tomorrow

Medicine, health and bioethics today and tomorrow

Medicine is the entire history of the human race still finding their place alongside men. Allowed him all the joy of life as it should be viewed as a brilliant array of knowledge and skills that enable human quality of life. So it was from the earliest days of human history when its parts considered sorcerers' skills, or all sorts of witchcraft. Today's medicine is considered a modern scientifi...

Membrane Engineering for Today and for Tomorrow

Alzheimer's Disease: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Alzheimer's disease is the most common and well - known cause of dementia, as a progressive, irreversible brain disorder that affects cognitive function, personality, thought, perception and behaviour. Alzheimer's disease is the fourth leading cause of death in western countries. Interesting to know that this disease was unknown in medical community till 100 years ago and had no name. Dr. Alois...

Photovoltaics today and tomorrow.

In the next several decades it is expected that the United States and the rest of the nations of the world will greatly expand their consumption of electricity. But many questions will accompany this expansion: Can we build enough generating capacity? Do we have enough energy resources? Can we accommodate centralized and dispersed needs, large and small applications, and the diverse requirement...

Vaccination today and tomorrow.

The vaccines against infectious diseases in use today are, with few exceptions, prepared from the causal agents themselves, either by inactivating them with a chemical such as formaldehyde or by attenuating them so that they grow and thus evoke an immune response in the natural host but cause no disease. These empirical approaches have produced many highly successful vaccines. Increasing knowle...