It was the first time that the acting board, appointed in 1998, had faced united opposition from groups representing business, technical, public and individual interests.
The technical priorities and individual stakeholder priorities may be in conflict and difficult to reconcile.
Important elements include difficulties in establishing the initial diagnosis, technical procedures, and individual adaptation of drugs and/or non-drug treatments.
A wide range of services is offered, including adaptation of the environment, technical aids, and individual instruction.
In this era of ubiquitous information, however, technical, organizational, and individual barriers still preclude a uniform infrastructure for exchanging patient records over the Internet [ 3].
More recently though, this dichotomy has come under pressure for the ways it promotes an unrealistic, and indeed dangerous image of these diseases as stable, uniform, associated with "development" and old age, and manageable through simple technical interventions and individual agency (read compliance).
While a Swedish study [ 12] in which diabetic patients, especially obese women, reported feeling humiliated and ignored when health communication was technical and without individual support, we would instead suggest a more complex view.
"The Department of Defense and the intelligence agencies need highly technical and skilled individuals" eligible for high-level security clearance, says Colwell.
First, we evaluated the technical and inter-individual variability, for each extraction kits, comparing the profiles of the biological triplicate (Additional file 2: Figure S2).
