[Managing a health research institute: towards research excellence through continuous improvement].

Health research institutes are a strategic commitment considered the ideal environment to develop excellence in translational research. Achieving quality research requires not only a powerful scientific and research structure but also the quality and integrity of management systems that support it. The essential instruments in our institution were solid strategic planning integrated into and consistent with the system of quality management, systematic evaluation through periodic indicators, measurement of key user satisfaction and internal audits, and implementation of an innovative information management tool.

[Hospital biomedical research through the satisfaction of a Health Research Institute professionals].

Objective: A Health Research Institute is a powerful strategic commitment to promote biomedical research in hospitals. To assess user satisfaction is an essential quality requirement. The aim of this study is to evaluate the professional satisfaction in a Health Research Institute, a hospital biomedical research centre par excellence.

[Physicians in the Pharaonic Ages' Egyptian society].

Egyptian tombstones and funerary stelae dating to the ancient Empire well testify the hierarchies existing in the Egyptian medical society. This article deals with both formal and practical aspects of the medical profession, and with the deeper meaning connected to the most interesting medical titles.