UN urged to use science in fight against food shortfall

Reforms urged to tackle violence against women in India.

Nearly every day at least one woman comes to Mumbai’s public hospitals seeking treatment for bruises, burns, or poisoning. In the past, such injuries were usually treated as accidents by doctors and victims who tacitly knew they were the result of domestic or sexual violence. “Everyone knows that a woman doesn’t accidentally drink half a bottle of pesticide’’, said Padma Deosthali, director of ...

The Fight against Diseases: Comments Related to “science for Man and Man for Science”

While the main topic of my presentation is science in search of solutions against diseases, therefore a topic definitely concerned with the contribution of “science for men”, I want to express my concern about the topic “man for science”. We cannot have only science applied to the betterment of mankind, or improvement of technologies: There will be no applied science if there is no science to a...

Reducing antibiotic use in the fight against MRSA.

The governmenT launched a national campaign last week to remind healthcare professionals about the problem of antibiotic resistance, and to make clear to patients that antibiotics will not cure the common cold (Department of health, 2008a). resistance to antibiotics is still increasing, and action is necessary to preserve the efficacy of existing antibiotics. As many patients visit gPs complain...

Industry in the fight against COVID-19 crisis

Fight against pneumonia.

Recently, WHO has decided to launch an annual “World Pneumonia Day” on November 2, 2009(1). The day will mobilize efforts to fight pneumonia, rightly called a ‘neglected’ or a ‘forgotten’ disease, that kills more than two million children under the age of five each year worldwide(2). The sudden shift of focus on pneumonia has raised many eyebrows and brought forward few issues that need clarifi...