Government must do more to support war veterans, MPs say

Cuts in aid are linked to Ebola crisis, say MPs.

The United Kingdom must reverse its cuts to funding of health sector support in Sierra Leone and Liberia, two of the countries devastated by the current Ebola outbreak, a group of MPs have said. A report by the International Development Committee about UK aid to Sierra Leone and Liberia has shown that the UK will cut its total financial support to the two countries by nearly a fifth, from £85.9...

Addiction Studies in Iran Neuroscientists Need to Do More

Global tuberculosis partnership says industrialized world must do more.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has unveiled a new blueprint to halve the 1.8 million deaths caused by tuberculosis (TB) each year but says it needs an additional US$14 billion from industrialized world over the next five years to achieve that target. The Global Plan to Stop TB 2011 — 2015: Transforming the Fight — Towards Elimination of Tuberculosis, announced simultaneously at the World H...

Acute exacerbation in COPD: we must do more.

If one asks medical students which emergencies they hold as especially important in internal medicine, more than 90% first mention myocardial infarction and stroke. This is not surprising, because these diseases occupy the first places in the mortality statistics contained in the Global Burden of Disease report [1]. Nevertheless, respiratory failure is only described as rare, despite the fact t...

Potential Drug Interactions in War-Injured Veterans

Drug-drug interaction (DDI) is one of the most important problems in the treatment of patients suffering from different chronic intractable diseases. The war-injured veterans are one of the groups that are prone to chronic refractory diseases. This investigation was conducted on war-injured veterans treated in a multi-disciplinary clinic in Tehran. Using Poisson model, a total of 150 patients w...