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More Dengue, More Questions

engue is epidemic or endemic in virtually every country in the tropics; it is even cited in the Guinness World Records, 2002, as the world's most important viral hemorrhagic fever and the most geographically widespread of the arthropodborne viruses. As illustrated in this issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases, dengue epidemics are expanding rapidly, as is the literature on the subject. That den...

Asthma: Achievements and Questions in Front

       Asthma, which is mainly distinguished by airway inflammation and bronchial hyper responsiveness, is known as one of the most common chronic diseases worldwide. It also is the most frequent chronic respiratory disorder amongst all age groups. On one side of the asthma story, there are massive investment of time, effort and money, a large number of pharmaceutical and academic research stud...

E-Learning: some unanswered questions

Tiotropium; more knowledge leads to more questions.

Tiotropium; more knowledge leads to more questions This issue of the International Journal of COPD has 3 original research papers that study the effects of tiotropium. These papers are very different, addressing the effect of tiotropium on the small airways (Incorvaia et al 2008), the benefi t of additional tiotropium treatment during a pulmonary rehabilitation programme (Kesten et al 2008), an...

HPV vaccination--more answers, more questions.

n engl j med 356;19 www.nejm.org may 10, 2007 1991 The availability of a “cancer vaccine” has elicited enormous enthusiasm from the medical community and the public, culminating in advocacy for mandatory vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) and a recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that 30 million girls and women between the ages of 11 and 26 years...