China's Economic Diplomacy: Focusing on the Asia-Pacific Region

Determinants Of Financial Integration In The East Asia- Pacific Region

Incorporation of Medical Research and Education in Asia Pacific Region

The goal of medicine is to prevent harm as Hippocrates pointed out; “primum non nocere; first do no harm”. Has this fact been taken into account in developing Medical Education curricula in Asia? Frequency of diseases in Asia is different from high income countries (1, 2) and funds for research are lacking.  It is therefore important to allocate available funds to the most applicable issues to...

East Asia and Pacific Region

Recent developments T HE YEAR 2001 WAS SHAPING UP AS A DIFficult year for East Asia and Pacific (EAP) even before the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. The unexpectedly sharp cyclical downturn in the world economy during the year had centered on a recession in the global high-technology (high-tech) sector, resulting in a plunge in the exports of the many East Asian economies ...

Ocular allergy in the Asia Pacific region

Allergic conjunctivitis (AC) represents a spectrum of disorders, comprising seasonal allergic conjunctivitis (SAC), perennial allergic conjunctivitis (PAC), atopic keratoconjunctivitis (AKC), vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) and giant papillary conjunctivitis. Of these ocular allergy types, SAC and PAC are the most common.The most striking difference within this group of ocular diseases is tha...

Tuberculosis in the Asia Pacific Region

The tuberculosis situation in 46 countries in Asia is reported. TB is still prevalent in Asia and more than 5 million or 60% of new TB patients in the world occur in Asia annually. Prevalence of TB is high in rural and urban areas, the young and the aged, female as well as males. Because of high prevalence of TB and delay in case-finding, annual risk of TB infection is still 1.5% or more in alm...