Bid to Reduce Cancer Deaths

Antenatal corticosteroids to reduce preterm deaths in low - income settings

In their Comment (April issue), Kishwar Azad and Anthony Costello raise questions that should be answered before antenatal corticosteroid treatment is scaled up to reduce pre term deaths in low-income countries. We share their concerns about the unknown overall effect of this treatment on mortality and potential safety issues in the mother. To answer these questions, we have initiated the Anten...

Antenatal corticosteroids to reduce preterm deaths in low-income settings.

Kishwar Azad and Anthony Costello suggest the use of extreme caution in scaling up of antenatal corticosteroid treatment in low-income settings. They raise three important questions with respect to the effi cacy, safety, and the appropriate gestational age at which to give corticosteroids to patients in low-income countries. Firstly, in terms of efficacy, there is high-quality evidence on the b...

The Battle to Reduce Maternal Deaths in Southern Lima

Background: The identification of local similarities between two protein structures can provide clues of a common function. Many different methods exist for searching for similar subsets of residues in proteins of known structure. However, the lack of functional and structural information on single residues, together with the low level of integration of this information in comparison methods, i...

Harm reduction over morals to reduce smoking deaths.

Governments commit to reduce suffering and deaths from noncommunicable diseases

“Governments should be fully committed to reducing the toll from NCDs, as the human and economic costs are far too great to ignore,” said Dr Vázquez. “This places a heavy responsibility on governments to act. But by taking determined action to protect people from the main risks causing NCDs, we will make it easier for people to enjoy healthier lives, while supporting communities and countries t...