The global response to diabetes: action or apathy?

The global response to diabetes: action or apathy?

Diabetes and related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for over 60% of the world's annual deaths, untold personal suffering, and an economically crippling burden of lost productivity. Despite the body of evidence and various calls to action, historically, the global response has bordered on apathy. Although diabetes and related NCDs remain disproportionately underfunded, the United Natio...

Global Alcohol Harm Network: Struggling or Emerging? A Response to Shiffman

Apathy or Activity?

access through the selective view of certain television programmes, and articles in the Press, presented in the last year. A drab picture is painted; the atmosphere of apathy, of old men and women sitting around the edge of a room with tiled floors, doing nothing all day except going to the lavatory. A few may be reading, whilst others might watch television. Most people visiting Homes for the ...

Kinetic complexity of the global response to glucocorticoid receptor action.

We have characterized the kinetic response of gene targets throughout the murine genome to transcriptional modulation by the glucocorticoid receptor (GR). In contrast to a model in which multiple genes are either repressed or activated during the GR response, the vast majority of responsive genes are subject to complex regulation profiles, frequently with alternate activation and repression pha...

Expanding the global response to HIV/AIDS through focused action