New Fuels Urgently Needed

New research and development strategy for tuberculosis diagnostics urgently needed.

584 www.thelancet.com/infection Vol 12 August 2012 3 Dewan PK, Grinsdale JA, Liska S, Wong E, Fallstad R, Kawamura LM. Feasibility, acceptability, and cost of tuberculosis testing by whole-blood interferon-gamma assay. BMC Infect Dis 2006; 6: 47. 4 Chaisson RE, Keruly JC, McAvinue S, Gallant JE, Moore RD. Eff ects of an incentive and education program on return rates for PPD test reading in pat...

Obstetric Pharmacokinetic Dosing Studies are Urgently Needed

Use of pharmacotherapy during pregnancy is common and increasing. Physiologic changes during pregnancy may significantly alter the overall systemic drug exposure, necessitating dose changes. A search of PubMed for pharmacokinetic clinical trials showed 494 publications during pregnancy out of 35,921 total pharmacokinetic published studies (1.29%), from the late 1960s through August 31, 2013. Cl...

Drug policy for methamphetamine use urgently needed.

Mental health systems research is urgently needed

Recent developments, including experience related to the development of WHO's World Health Report 2001, the WHO Atlas and the DCP Project related to Mental, Neurological, Developmental and Substance Abuse Disorders, indicate why advancing the interests of mental health is now so compelling. In order to deliver a high standard of mental health treatment and care WHO emphasizes the adoption of an...

Establishing a Libyan Medical Research Council is Urgently Needed

To the Editor: I read with interest the study by Bakoush et al addressing the issue of medical publication in Libya [1]. The number of published reports from Libya was compared with another three Arabic countries (Morocco, Tunisia and Yemen). I suggest to the authors the extention of their study to include all twenty-three Arabic countries. This would enhance our knowledge of the scientific pro...