The treatment of malignant bone tumors in children and adolescents has improved over the last four decades as a result of progress in many disciplines.
Laser-induced ignition is envisaged as a way to obtain high-energy ignition as a result of progress that has been made in laser beam technology in terms of stability, size, and energy.
In this article we propose that medical practice evolves as a result of progress along three different pathways: improvement in the ability to develop effective medical technologies, learning in medical practice, and advances in biomedical scientific understanding of disease.
A growing number of ethical questions are being raised as a result of progress in the field of biotechnology.
The size of the nuclear genome in Cyanidioschyzon reported in the last decade has doubled as a result of progress in measuring techniques (Matsuzaki et al. 2004).
Indeed, since 1990 declining mortality rates have been seen in western Europe and Australia as well as the Americas as a result of progress in these activities (Veronesi et al. 2005).
Uveitides that were previously 'undiagnosed', labeled and treated as 'idiopathic' are increasingly recognized as related to, or directly caused by an infective cause as a result of progress in diagnostic techniques.
The incidence of and mortality from cervical cancer in the USA have declined over time as a result of progress in primary prevention, early-stage disease detection, and treatment [ 1].
This figure, unacceptably high though it is, reflects a substantial degree of progress since the beginning of the 1970s; the number has declined in absolute terms from about 917million and in relative terms from 35 percent of the population of developing countries to 21 percent, mainly as a result of progress in East Asia (including China) and parts of South Asia, such as India and Pakistan.
Two services remained in the early stages of the commissioning process due to limited commissioning staff capacity (1 and 2); one service developed further as a result of progress with a new computer system (5); and three new services were successfully launched following several years of planning (3, 4 and 6).
