What will 2009 be like?

What is and what will be

This version of What is and what will be has images distributed throughout the text as visual poetry. The images were mostly taken at Esalen Institute near Big Sur California and at my home in the Santa Cruz Mountains near San Jose California. The dolphin pictures and a few others were taken in Hawaii. The images in this version are formatted at 72 dots per inch. This is suitable for viewing on...

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Leaders Prion diseases: what will be next?

In recent history there is probably no group of disease that has caused more surprises or shocks than the group of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or prion diseases as they have become known. Grouped together on the basis of their neuropathology, showing vacuolation of the neuropil or neurones, or both (spongiform change) (fig 1), they present a variable clinical picture; nevertheles...

ADA Research Funding in 2009: Where Will We Be?

This decade has been disheartening to diabetes scientists, not because their scientific discovery and progress has slackened, but precisely the opposite. Scientific journals are replete with new basic and clinical research findings that fire imaginations about a better world for diabetic patients in the near future. Funding the research has been the big problem. Funds that are so critical to ou...

G8 Summit 2009: what approach will Italy take to health?

In the past decade, the G8 played an important part in the establishment or support of global health initiatives that are at risk today of becoming part of the problem rather than the solution for granting health coverage to disadvantaged populations. The fragmentation of fi nancing for global health and increased transaction costs contrast with the need for effi cient and eff ective health sys...