The Gathering Storm still looms

Analytics, Cloud Still Dominant, But More Looms on IT Horizon

Diabetes and tuberculosis: a gathering storm?

The number of cases of active tuberculosis (TB) continues to rise in the UK and in many other parts of the world. 2 In analysing the reasons behind this rise, it needs to be kept in mind that only a small proportion of those who become infected with TB will progress to become ill with active TB disease in the weeks and months after infection. They do, however, remain at risk of reactivation of ...

The Gathering Storm: Is Untreatable Typhoid Fever on the Way?

Klemm et al. (mBio 9:e00105-18, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00105-18) present comprehensive antibiotic sensitivity patterns and genomic sequence data on Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi blood culture isolates from typhoid fever cases during an epidemic in Pakistan. Microbiologic and genomic data pinpoint the identities and locations of the antimicrobial resistance genes and the outbreak...

Health information in the new millennium: a gathering storm?

1 Assistant Director-General, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (email: [email protected]). Correspondence should be sent to this author. 2 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Washington, USA. Health information is the foundation of public health. In the early 19th century, pioneering work by Edwin Chadwick and William Farr was instrumental in developing public health as a legitimate d...

Electrical storm: still a cryptogenic phenomenon?

The implantable cardioverter/defibrillator (ICD) has become the dominant therapeutic modality for the treatment of lifethreatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias. However, the ICD does not prevent the occurrence of ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF). Repeated tachyarrhythmias occurring in a short period of time may therefore result in the delivery of multiple shocks. Th...