Table of Contents
Editorials
| Personalized health care: the hope beyond the hype | |
| Stefania Boccia |
Commentary
| Addressing the gap between genetics knowledge and clinical practice: a pilot study to implement genetics education among physicians in Italy | |
| Walter Mazzucco, Walter Ricciardi, Stefania Boccia |
| Ethical Implications and Legislative Control of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing in Europe | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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? | |
| Hilary Burton, Gurdeep S Sagoo, Paul Pharoah, Ron L Zimmern |
| Personalised Health Care, the need for reassessment. A HTA perspective far beyond cost-effectiveness | |
| Iñaki Gutiérrez-Ibarluzea |
| Personalization of antimicrobial dosing regimens: indicators of performance | |
| 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 | |
| Kingsley Nnanna Ukwaja |
| Low back pain among Kosovo power plant workers: a survey | |
| Ardiana Murtezani |
| Caregiver burden from caring for impaired elderly: a cross-sectional study in rural Lower Egypt | |
| Rasha Salama |
| Beliefs on and Attitude toward Doping Use Among Athletes: an Italian Survey | |
| 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 | |
| Annalisa Orenti, Giuseppe Marano, Patrizia Boracchi, Ettore Marubini |
| Power estimation for multiple co-primary endpoints: a comparison among conservative solutions | |
| Antonio Lucadamo, Nadia Accoto, Daniele De Martini |
| High Dimensional Regression on Serum Analytes | |
| 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. | |
| Stefania Boccia, Walter Ricciardi |
History corner
| Giulio Alfredo Maccacaro | |
| Roberto Bucci, Serena Traglia |