Volume 9, Issue 4 (2012)

Personalised Health Care

Table of Contents

Editorials

Personalized health care: the hope beyond the hype PDF
Stefania Boccia

Commentary

Addressing the gap between genetics knowledge and clinical practice: a pilot study to implement genetics education among physicians in Italy PDF
Walter Mazzucco, Walter Ricciardi, Stefania Boccia
Ethical Implications and Legislative Control of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing in Europe PDF
John Shehata, Eva Kooijman, Carolina Ianuale

Theme papers

Genetic and epigenetic interactions in adaptive thermogenesis pathways in association with obesity from a Public Health Genomics perspective PDF Supplementary Materials (PDF)
Caroline Brettfeld, Stephanie Englert, Eva Aumueller, Alexander G. Haslberger
Genetic prediction of common complex disorders assessed by next generation sequencing and genome wide analysis PDF
Bruno Dallapiccola, Rita Mingarelli, Stefania Boccia
Cost saving and predictive factors of response to rituximab in rheumatoid arthritis, including the IL-6 promoter gene polymorphism PDF
Luca Quartuccio, Sara Salvin, Martina Fabris, Maurizio Benucci, Raffaele Pellerito, Cristina Furian, Paola Masolini, Marco Cimmino, Maria Grazia Troncon, Giovanni Maria Guarrera, Salvatore De Vita
Time to revisit Geoffrey Rose: strategies for prevention in the genomic era? PDF
Hilary Burton, Gurdeep S Sagoo, Paul Pharoah, Ron L Zimmern
Personalised Health Care, the need for reassessment. A HTA perspective far beyond cost-effectiveness PDF
Iñaki Gutiérrez-Ibarluzea
Personalization of antimicrobial dosing regimens: indicators of performance PDF
Federico Pea, Piergiorgio Cojutti, Lucia Dose, Cristina Furian, Giovanni Guarrera, Mario Furlanut

Free papers

Trends in treatment outcome of smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis in Southeastern Nigeria, 1999 – 2008 PDF
Kingsley Nnanna Ukwaja
Low back pain among Kosovo power plant workers: a survey PDF
Ardiana Murtezani
Caregiver burden from caring for impaired elderly: a cross-sectional study in rural Lower Egypt PDF
Rasha Salama
Beliefs on and Attitude toward Doping Use Among Athletes: an Italian Survey PDF
Alessandra Tavani, Paolo Colombo, Vilma Scarpino, Piergiorgio Zuccaro, Roberta Pacifici, Carlo La Vecchia
Pinpointing outliers in experimental data: the Hat matrix in Anova for fixed and mixed effects models PDF
Annalisa Orenti, Giuseppe Marano, Patrizia Boracchi, Ettore Marubini
Power estimation for multiple co-primary endpoints: a comparison among conservative solutions PDF
Antonio Lucadamo, Nadia Accoto, Daniele De Martini
High Dimensional Regression on Serum Analytes PDF
Yuanzhang Li

Books

“Successes and failures of health policy in Europe over four decades. Diverging trends, converging challenges”. Edited by Johan Mackenbach and Martin McKee. PDF
Stefania Boccia, Walter Ricciardi

History corner

Giulio Alfredo Maccacaro PDF
Roberto Bucci, Serena Traglia