Unfinished Business in Maternal and Child Nutrition

Maternal and child nutrition.

Is it enough to declare conflicts of interest? In TheLancet Series on maternal and child nutrition, two authors declared conflicts of interest as members of the board of the Nestlé Creating Shared Value Advisory Committee—a company that repeatedly transgresses the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes.1 We wonder how the Lancet's policy on conflicts of interest was applied. ...

Maternal and child nutrition.

Maternal & child nutrition: the Sri Lankan perspective.

Most improvements gained during the past two decades in maternal and child nutrition can be attributed to the successful, countrywide maternal and child health programme of the Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka. Other supporting programmes to combat deficiencies of individual micronutrients have also contributed significantly. As the latest Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data have shown region...

Germ Line Mechanics--And Unfinished Business.

Primordial germ cells are usually made early in the development of an organism. These are the mother of all stem cells that are necessary for propagation of the species, yet use highly diverse mechanisms between organisms. How they are specified, and when and where they form, are central to developmental biology. Using diverse organisms to study this development is illuminating for understandin...

General Parsed entities: Unfinished Business

General parsed entities seemed like one of the simplest parts of XML when it first appeared, easy to create and use, and more predictable than their SGML counterparts. In the years since, however, parsed entities have become a malingering reminder that DTDs are not yet dead, continuing to demonstrate periodically that XML hasn’t even resolved all of the interoperability issues at the markup lev...