Neuro-Ophthalmology in the United Kingdom.

No evidence for MSRV viraemia and glial cell death in acute optic neuritis.

∗Department of Neuroinflammation, Neuroimmunology Group, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom. Fax: +44 207 837 8553, E-mail: [email protected] †BioMérieux, R&D Department, Neurological Programs, Bat.07 Pieèce 112, Chemin de L’Orme, F–69290 Marcy L’Etoile, France ‡Department of Neuroinflammation, MRI Group, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, WC...

Neuro-ophthalmology in france.

I nterest in neuro-ophthalmology in France dates back to the 19th century with the publications by an ophthalmologist, Henri Parinaud, a collaborator of Jean-Martin Charcot in Paris. At that time, a physiologist, Claude Bernard, and a neurologist, Eugène Devic, participated in the description of various neuro-ophthalmologic syndromes. In the 1930s, academic neurologists in Paris, including Pier...

Making Research Matter; Comment on “Public Spending on Health Service and Policy Research in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Modest Proposal”

We offer a UK-based commentary on the recent “Perspective” published in IJHPM by Thakkar and Sullivan. We are sympathetic to the authors’ call for increased funding for health service and policy research (HSPR). However, we point out that increasing that investment – in any of the three countries they compare: Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom– will ipso facto not necessarily lea...

Public Spending on Health Service and Policy Research in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Modest Proposal

Health services and policy research (HSPR) represent a multidisciplinary field which integrates knowledge from health economics, health policy, health technology assessment, epidemiology, political science among other fields, to evaluate decisions in health service delivery. Health service decisions are informed by evidence at the clinical, organizational, and policy level, levels with distinct...

Re-organising Junior Doctors During the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Single Centre Experience in the United Kingdom