The paper by Gilbert et al. should be on the table of every politician and National Health Service (NHS) manager in the run up to the general election, when the NHS is at the hustings. They have raised profound moral dilemmas of the internal and external market in their present form, such as the practicalities of distributive justice and the enhancement of autonomy – to which are added the pres...

Virtual training systems with intelligent agents provide an effective means to train people for complex, dynamic tasks like crisis management or firefighting. For successful training, intelligent virtual agents should be able to show believable behavior, adapt their behavior to the trainee’s performance and give useful explanations about their behavior. Agents can provide more believable behavi...

This study is a systematic review of mind-body interventions that used immune outcomes in order to: 1) characterize mind-body medicine studies that assessed immune outcomes, 2) evaluate the quality of mind-body medicine studies measuring immune system effects, and 3) systematically evaluate the evidence for mind-body interventions effect on immune system outcomes using existing formal tools. 11...

Abstract Compassion focused therapy (CFT) is rooted in an evolutionary view of the human mind as formed a multitude contrasting, and often conflicting, motivations, emotions competencies. A core aim to help clients understand nature their way that de-pathologizing de-shaming. The approach also on cultivation compassion work with these difficult aspects mind. CFT includes ‘multiple-selves’ inter...

Virtual Reality (VR) could be useful to overcome imagery and somatosensory difficulties of compassion-based meditations given that it helps generate empathy by facilitating the possibility putting oneself into mind others. Thus, aim this study was evaluate effectiveness an embodied-VR system in generating a compassionate response increasing quality adherence meditation practice. Health professi...

In addition to being an example of unsubstantiated hype about regenerative medicine, the controversy around the Italybased Stamina Foundation’s unproven stem cell therapy represents another chapter in a continuing debate about how to balance patients’ requests for early access to experimental medicines with requirements for demonstrating safety and effectiveness. Compassionate use of the Stamin...