Companies today have to adopt strategies that embrace both a closer reaction to the customers’ needs and efficiency. Mass customisation meets this challenge by offering individually customised goods and services with mass production efficiency. According to a number of recent surveys, there is evidence for the increasing importance of this strategy in various industries. But what do the custome...

BACKGROUND Long-acting antiretroviral therapy (LA-ART) is currently under development and could improve outcomes for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals with poor daily ART adherence. METHODS We used a computer simulation model to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of 3 LA-ART strategies vs daily oral ART for all: (1) LA-ART for patients with multiple ART failures; (2) second...

This year, once again,millions of people in the United States who get health insurance through their employers received the unwelcome news that cost sharing would increase. Harvard University, where both of us work and get our health insurance, increased costsharing for its employees, raising a hue and cry from faculty.1 There were charges that the changes were regressive and particularly harmf...

This study aimed to reconstruct a three-dimensional map of axonal mitochondria using Fiji and Neurolucida software, and to observe directly the morphology and distribution of mitochondria in axons of motor neurons in dorsal longitudinal flight muscles of drosophila aged 5 days and 20 days, using electron microscopy. Results indicated that there was no difference in the total area and volume of ...

background despite significant advances in the treatment of chronic hepatitis c in the past decades, factors which can affect response rates to combination therapy; peginterferon and ribavirin, are still under study and reaching sustained virological response (svr) is affected by several different factors. objectives to investigate predictor factors contributing to svr in iranian patients. pati...

Labour’s shadow health secretary, Andy Burnham, has committed to make no real terms cuts in NHS pay under a future Labour government—a pledge that the health secretary for England, JeremyHunt, and the Liberal Democrat health minister Norman Lamb refused to match. The politicians were put on the spot by the BMA’s chair of council, Mark Porter, at a debate on health and social care in London this...

Background: To assess determinants of willingness to pay for community health insurance among commercial motorcyclists (Boda Boda riders) in Kampala City. Methods: A descriptive cross sectional research was done. A sample of commercial motorcyclists’ stages were purposively selected. Simple random sampling was used to select respondents at each stage.  Structured interviews and contingency val...