HIV treatment as prevention : models, data, and questions-towards evidence-based decision-making [PDF]
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) for those infected with HIV can prevent onward transmission of infection, but biological efficacy alone is not enough to guide policy decisions about the role of ART in reducing HIV incidence.
Delva, Wim +1 more
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Medicine and the Art of Seeing
This Humanities in Medicine article is an examination of the use of formal fine arts training in medical curricula to enhance diagnostic skills. A great amount can be discerned about pathology and pathophysiology using visual cues.
Leah Natalie Rosetti
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Through the eyes of a medical student
As a medical student, I have come to appreciate the generosity of the patient time that I experience. This places me in a unique position as I can become truly immersed in the perspective of the patients I see.
Dustin Jacobson
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Proceedings of a Joint Meeting held between The Norwegian Society of Infectious Diseases and the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Oslo, 20th June 2008 [PDF]
The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) has a tradition of holding joint meetings with fellow European Societies, providing opportunities to facilitate discussion, exchange information, foster mutual interests and develop collaboration
Myrvang, Bjorn, Newport, Melanie J.
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Factors Influencing Adherence to Antiretroviral Treatment in Nepal: A Mixed-Methods Study [PDF]
Background Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a lifesaver for individual patients treated for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
Freeman, Jennifer +4 more
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Affective Medicine: a review of Affective Computing efforts in Medical Informatics [PDF]
Background: Affective computing (AC) is concerned with emotional interactions performed with and through computers. It is defined as “computing that relates to, arises from, or deliberately influences emotions”. AC enables investigation and understanding
Bamidis, Panagiotis +2 more
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Microfluidic systems for biosensing [PDF]
In the past two decades, Micro Fluidic Systems (MFS) have emerged as a powerful tool for biosensing, particularly in enriching and purifying molecules and cells in biological samples.
Liu, Kuo-Kang +5 more
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The motivation of technological scenarios in augmented reality (AR): results of different experiments [PDF]
Augmented Reality (AR) is an emergent technology that is acquiring more and more relevance in teaching every day. Together with mobile technology, this combination arises as one of the most effective binomials to support significant and ubiquitous ...
Cabero Almenara, Julio +1 more
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Machine Learning and Integrative Analysis of Biomedical Big Data. [PDF]
Recent developments in high-throughput technologies have accelerated the accumulation of massive amounts of omics data from multiple sources: genome, epigenome, transcriptome, proteome, metabolome, etc. Traditionally, data from each source (e.g., genome)
Choi, Howard +5 more
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Seven properties of self-organization in the human brain [PDF]
The principle of self-organization has acquired a fundamental significance in the newly emerging field of computational philosophy. Self-organizing systems have been described in various domains in science and philosophy including physics, neuroscience ...
Dresp-Langley, Birgitta
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