Two such issues include the availability of a useful intervention (treatment) and the availability of societal infrastructure to inform the patient and family of results, confirm results, and properly implement treatment and counseling.
Now that a methodology for generating transgenic chickens has become available [ 15], it is likely that the availability of useful markers and the accessibility of chick embryos for live imaging will significantly increase the use of avian models and will boost research in this area.
In summary, we might expect from the use of NUTRIC an increased awareness towards nutritional issues and the availability of a useful research tool.
These studies have resulted in the availability of clinically useful 99mTc-labelled GRP-R-specific radiotracers as described below.
The interest in PDGFR as a cancer drug target has increased with the availability of clinically useful small-molecule inhibitors, such as imatinib mesylate (Glivec) and sunitinib (Sutent) (Pietras et al, 2003).
However, the strong positive predictive value and the rapid availability of the results make them useful as an aid to the diagnostic decision and may help to differentiate infection from colonization.
Modern computerized surveillance systems in combination with the general availability of the Internet could be useful tools in ensuring that relevant and updated surveillance information is always at hand where it is needed [ 4].
The success of these projects, the technical support offered to other organization by Melanie Morrow (then working with World Relief) and Tom Davis (then working with Food for the Hungry), and the availability of a very useful implementation guide all fueled adoption of the approach by other NGOs funded by the USAID Child Survival and Health Grants Program.
Unlike previous walking techniques, our strategy does not rely on restriction enzymes or ligases, and is therefore unaffected by the availability of useful restriction sites in the flanking region.
In our and others' experience, the time cost of the clinical assessments for the physician is regained by the time saved with the availability of useful, structured and reliable data [ 12].
