What Will Putin Bequeath to His Successor in 2024?

Where will Benedict XVI lead his sheep?

J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2005: 31(3) Since the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), a majority of theologians and the vast majority of the laity have accepted sexual intercourse as an intrinsic part of a loving relationship. However, the white puff of smoke coming from the Sistine Chapel signifying the election of Pope Benedict XVI will turn into a black cloud for reproductive freedom for ...

Preventing suicide: what will work and what will not.

What Will Happen to Brazilian Fertility?

Despite the absence of an official family planning policy, demographic changes in Brazil occurred at an unprecedented pace in the second half of the twentieth century, ushering in an era with total fertility rates near the replacement level. According to the population censuses, the total population in Brazil was 52 million in 1950 and 170 million in 2000. This reflected a mean annual growth ra...

What Will It Take to Cure HIV?

Investigational strategies to attempt HIV cure or remission include very early initiation of antiretroviral therapy to limit the latent HIV reservoir and preinfection vaccination. In the setting of viral suppression, strategies include reactivation of latently infected cells (eg, through "shock" therapy with histone deacetylase inhibitors or other agents); use of broadly neutralizing antibodies...

What will metabolomics studies mean to endocrinology?

Personalized medicine is a key topic for the development of future health-care provisions, even in endocrinology. The objective of personalized medicine is to use state-of-the-art association studies (GWAS), transcriptomics, proteomics as well as metabolomics are able to identify the up to now diagnostics and novel therapeutic interventions that take into account the specific requirements and c...