Renewed Challenge

Tuberculosis and HIV: renewed challenge.

HIV infection is responsible for an increased incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in several areas of the world (MC Raviglione et al. 1995 JAMA 276: 220-226). In general, active TB happens as a consequence of a recently acquired exogenous infection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis or of endogenous reactivation of old infection. In some regions, besides the increase of the incidence, an import...

[Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis emergence: a renewed challenge].

Smart Grid Communications: A Renewed challenge to Multiservice Networking

This paper focuses on the multiservice aspects of the Smart Grid communications system with particular emphasis on the real time requirements of its control system. A general outline of the Smart Grid is presented and its general communications requirements are identified. The stringent real-time requirements of substation and transmission line control are discussed in greater detail. An overvi...

The new medical model: a renewed challenge for biomedicine.

CMAJ | MAY 1, 2017 | VOLUME 189 | ISSUE 17 © 2017 Joule Inc. or its licensors O ver the past 25 years, several new “medicines” have come screeching onto health care’s various platforms, including narrative medicine, personalized medicine, precision medicine and person-centred medicine. Philosopher Miriam Solomon calls the first three of these movements different “ways of knowing” or “methods,” ...

Cobalt-60: An Old Modality, A Renewed Challenge