Can resveratrol help to maintain metabolic health?

Does Propolis Help to Maintain Oral Health?

Propolis, known also as bee glue, is a wax-cum-resin substance which is created out of a mix of buds from some trees with the substance secreted from bee's glands. Its diverse chemical content is responsible for its many precious salubrious properties. It was used in medicine already in ancient Egypt. Its multiple applications during the centuries have been studied and described in details. The...

Can Social Contagion Help Global Health ‘Jump the Shark’?; Comment on “How to Facilitate Social Contagion?”

The instrumental use of social networks has become a central tenet of international health policy and advocacy since the Millennium project. In asking, ‘How to facilitate social contagion?’, Karl Blanchet of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine therefore reflects not only on the recent success, but also hints to growing challenges; the tactics of partnerships, alliances and platfo...

How Food Industries Can Help in Preventing Childhood Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome?

Can international public health law help to prevent war?

Editor – The December 2002 issue invites debate on international law. As noted by Aginam (1), states generally comply with a law or a convention if they see it as being in their interests, however that may be interpreted. That the reverse is true is illustrated vividly by US positions on the Kyoto Accord, the International Court of Justice, and the use of a veto to block relaxation of patent la...

can social contagion help global health ‘jump the shark’?; comment on “how to facilitate social contagion?”

the instrumental use of social networks has become a central tenet of international health policy and advocacy since the millennium project. in asking, ‘how to facilitate social contagion?’, karl blanchet of the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine therefore reflects not only on the recent success, but also hints to growing challenges; the tactics of partnerships, alliances and platfo...