Seizing the opportunity: tackling fossil fuel subsidies under the UNFCCC

Fossil fuel subsidies and health.

In calling for a switch of fossil fuel subsidies to funding of universal health coverage, Vinay Gupta and colleagues (June, 2015) miss two health-relevant issues: all fossil fuels are not the same and all subsidies are not the same. Liquefi ed petroleum gas (LPG) has major, direct health advantages in household cooking in countries of low and middle income, its primary use. Indeed, the Global B...

Seizing the Digitalization Opportunity

Seizing the Opportunity: Exploiting Web Aggregation

This paper examines the development of web aggregators, entities that collect information from a wide range of sources, with or without prior arrangements, and add value through post-aggregation services. New Web-page extraction tools, context sensitive mediators, and agent technologies have greatly reduced the barriers to constructing aggregators. We predict that aggregators will soon emerge i...

Seizing an opportunity for the endocannabinoid system.

Exogenous cannabinoids can limit seizures and neurodegeneration, and their actions are largely mimicked by endogenous cannabinoids (endocannabinoids). Endocannabinoids are mobilized by epileptiform activity and in turn influence this activity by inhibiting synaptic transmission; both excitatory and some inhibitory synapses can be suppressed, leading to potentially complex outcomes. Moreover, th...

Seizing the opportunity to close the cancer divide.

On which of the battles not yet won should we focus attention when reviewing the global response to the challenge of cancer? Prevention and successful treatment are possible for many of the cancers that kill poor people of all ages globally. But to respond to this opportunity, we fi rst need to dispel the myths that surround cancer and poverty. Between 1990 and 2010 the global burden of disease...