Not so neglected diseases

Letter to the Editor Not so neglected diseases

New Insights from a Not-So-Neglected Field: Hemispatial Neglect

Hemispatial neglect remains one of the most remarkable syndromes investigated by behavioural neurologists. It occurs only after relatively focal (or at least asymmetric) brain damage, most commonly stroke, but is occasionally observed in asymmetric atrophy syndromes such as corticobasal syndrome or Posterior Cortical Atrophy due to Alzheimer’s Disease pathology. It is also sometimes associated ...

Neglected Tropical Diseases, Neglected Data Sources, and Neglected Issues

BACKGROUND Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a so-called neglected tropical disease, currently overshadowed by higher-profile efforts to address malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS. Despite recent successes in arresting transmission, some 40 million people who already have the disease have been largely neglected. This study aims to increase understanding of how this vulnerable, neglected group can b...

Neglected tropical diseases: becoming less neglected.

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) cover a wide range of infections that predominantly aff ect the poorest and most vulnerable individuals. Neglected, but not unknown, these diseases are preventable and treatable. They threaten the lives of more than 1 billion people worldwide, including half a billion children. To take the “neglected“ out of NTDs, public and private partners— including drug co...

Systemic Autoimmune Diseases: Not So Rare in Black Africans

Conventional beliefs and some publications, had in the past, asserted that systemic auto immune diseases such as inflammatory arthritis, connective tissue diseases and vasculitis are rare. Many of such reports had been hospital based and were not based on the ACR criteria. Rheumatoid arthritis was reported as being rare, especially among West Africans; so also Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Scle...