They are combining low and high-tech approaches to ensure that citizens are able to access critical information that can help improve their lives.
Entire genomes are being decoded at an astounding rate (nearly three hundred species have been done, and more than seven hundred others are in the works), and new high-tech approaches to old problems seem to appear by the week.
High-tech approaches can be very effective in the treatment of trauma, medical and surgical emergencies, infectious disease and other serious conditions, but they are not the answer to all health problems.
High-tech approaches are also popular.
The Business Software Alliance estimates that illegal copying costs the $74 billion U.S. software industry $15 billion and no matter how many encryptions, watermarks and other high-tech approaches to stamping out piracy software companies have tested, nothing has worked.
In her contribution to our feature, Vibha Dhawan, director of India?s Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) in New Delhi describes how high-tech approaches can help developing countries tackle issues such as food, vitamin, and energy supply; deforestation; and environment-friendly agriculture.
Pathways do not need to be traditional; they can look to use high-tech approaches including by providing online or mobile resources.
Aggressive high-tech approaches at the end-of-life are not feasible.
Also, given that such environmental factors as diet, activity level, stress, smoking and air quality are known to be important determinants of CAD risk, the first line of cost-effective and safe intervention for an individual with a high genetic risk burden would include modulation of such environmental factors instead of more costly, high-tech approaches, such as gene-based biological therapies.
