Joint European plan will tackle Africa's killer diseases

New Investment Plan Will Fund Master Plan Students Flee Katrina

Taxpayer support for public colleges has been falling sharply in recent years, not only in New York but around the country, and this has lately been causing a great deal of concern among many administra t o r s. The trend has also led to j o l t i n g , unpredictable tuition i n c r e a s e s. But CUNY has developed a long-term plan that could become a national model for the funding of public c...

Will the NHS strategic plan benefit patients?

The first principle of the Toyota way, one of the world’s most successful management systems, is to base decisions on a long term philosophy that generates value for the individual, society, and the economy.1 The new strategic plan for the NHS (which, although often called the Darzi report, results from a year long strategic planning exercise involving thousands of NHS staff) is of internationa...

National Plan for Rare Diseases

A Student-Led Campaign to Help Tackle Neglected Tropical Diseases

July 2007 | Volume 4 | Issue 7 | e241 The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of chronic infections that are often considered together because they primarily affect one billion of the world’s poorest people and attract little attention from the global medical community [1]. The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (http:⁄⁄www.un.org/ millenniumgoals/) call for increased fundin...

Integrative medicine to tackle the problem of chronic diseases

This article summarizes important ways that integrative medicine can contribute to resolving the global health crisis with special reference to the US. Research using modern methods of analysis of cellular changes at the epigenetic level has shown that diet and lifestyle interventions greatly improve the state of patients' health. Estimates have been given that up to 75% of all US health costs ...