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Emerging infections: getting ahead of the curve.

The early history of infectious diseases was characterized by sudden, unpredictable outbreaks, frequently of epidemic proportion. Scientific advances in the late 19th and early 20th centuries resulted in the prevention and control of many infectious diseases, particularly in industrialized nations. Despite these improvements in health, outbreaks of infectious disease continue to occur, and new ...

Commentary: getting ahead of the childhood obesity curve.

In data for 5688 ch ildren , age-an d sex-specific com parison s of weigh t, h eigh t, body m ass in dex (BMI), an d skin fold data are m ade with an accepted British stan dard an d also with th e recen tly developed in tern ation al stan dard based on pooled data from several cou n tries. 3 Usin g th ese stan dards, th e au th ors also m ake age-an d sex-specific com parison s across eth n ici...

Ahead of the curve.

Treating HIV in the developing world: getting ahead of the drug development curve.

At the 2006 International AIDS Conference (http://www.aids2006.org/), an impressive range of new therapeutic developments for HIV/AIDS were described. Several new drugs, and new drug classes (entry and fusion inhibitors, integrase inhibitors, and maturation antagonists) are offering great hope for more effective treatment [1]. At the same time, however, the conference also saw unrest among trea...

Too far ahead of the IT curve?

Peachtree Healthcare has major IT infrastructure problems, and CEO Max Berndt is struggling to find the right fix. He can go with a single set of systems and applications that will provide consistency across Peachtree's facilities but may not give doctors enough flexibility. Or he can choose service-oriented architecture (SOA), a modular design that will allow Peachtree to standardize increment...