Defusing the monetary time bomb

Exercise interventions: defusing the world's osteoporosis time bomb.

Osteoporosis is a major public health problem, affecting millions of people worldwide. The associated health care costs are growing in parallel with increases in elderly populations, and it is expected that the number of osteoporotic fractures will double over the next 50 years. The best way to address osteoporosis is prevention. Some interventions to maximize and preserve bone mass have multip...

Defusing the new drug-resistant TB time bomb.

How BMW is defusing the demographic time bomb.

PH OT O G RA PH Y: B M W I n June 2007, Nikolaus Bauer, the head of BMW’s 2,500-employee power train plant in Dingolfing, Lower Bavaria, was worrying about what looked like an inevitable decline in the productivity of an aging workforce in the years ahead. With two of his production managers, Peter Jürschick and Helmut Mauermann (a coauthor, with Bauer), he developed an innovative, bottomup app...

Defusing the intra-abdominal ticking bomb: intestinal malrotation in children.

CMAJ 2000;162(9):1315-7 The case A 6-month-old girl presents to her pediatrician with lethargy; she has been vomiting and the vomit is bile stained. She is admitted to hospital for tests. Plain radiographs of the abdomen and barium enema examination are normal. Results of an upper gastrointestinal (GI) study are suspicious for, but not diagnostic of, intestinal malrotation. The patient improves...

T HE G LOBE How BMW Is Defusing the Demographic Time Bomb by Christoph H . Loch