The ability to create well-de®ned and controlled interfaces has been an area of great interest over the last few years, particularly in the biomedical arena. This paper will describe the development of technology for the fabrication of nanopore membranes, and their operation in biological environments. With monodisperse pores sizes as small as 10 nanometers, these membranes offer advantages in ...

Nanomaterials have been defined as any material possessing at least one dimension in the nanometer scale between 1 and 100 nm. As a result, a new field has emerged during last decades: Nanotechnology. It can be defined as the design, synthesis and application of materials and devices whose size and shape have been engineered at the nanoscale. In addition to the main properties of Nanomaterials,...

context: in recent years, nanotechnology has opened up several new avenues of extraordinary biomedical potential by modulating metals into their nanosize leading to significant improvement in their chemical, physical and optical properties. introduction: the advanced fabrication techniques have been exploited to modify nanostructured materials. the functionalized nanoscaled fibers display vario...

The deployment of biomedical applications in a grid environment has started about three years ago in several European projects and national initiatives. These applications have demonstrated that the grid paradigm was relevant to the needs of the biomedical community. They have also highlighted that this community had very specific requirements on middleware and needed further structuring in lar...

H. M. Sanders, M. Iafisco, E. M. Pouget, P. H. Bomans, F. Nudelman, G. Fallini, G. de With, M. Merkx, N. A. Sommerdijk, G. J. Strijkers, and K. Nicolay Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Laboratory of Materials and Interface Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherland...

Globally and regionally, hospitals absorb around 50%–70% of total government health expenditure, employ a large workforce and make extensive use of sophisticated biomedical technology. Improvement of hospital performance as part of improving overall health system performance is high on the reform agenda of countries in the Region. This paper raises awareness of the gaps in hospital performance ...

BACKGROUND Network meta-analysis may require substantially more resources than does a standard systematic review. One frequently asked question is "how far should I extend the network and which treatments should I include?" OBJECTIVE To explore the increase in precision from including additional evidence. METHODS We assessed the benefit of extending treatment networks in terms of precision ...

This book by Pascale Lahoux at times appears lengthy and somewhat obscurely written. However, it presents many examples and a broad vision and understanding of health technology and health technology assessment as it is applied today. The fact that modern medicine is both producer and consumer of technology and in reality cannot be seen as a separate entity is stressed throughout this interesti...