Where did all the other non-communicable diseases go?

Where did all the other non-communicable diseases go?

Serious consideration is needed about which non-communicable diseases to discuss at this month’s United Nations meeting if people in low income countries are to benefit. The diseases selected are more problematic in high income than in low income countries. Stroke, heart disease, diabetes, and chronic obstructive lung disease primarily affect older adults while low income countries remain large...

Where Did All The Bytes Go?

Configuring, installing, re-configuring, and re-installing disk drives can be time consuming. Understanding the physical disk and how UNIX file systems are laid out on disk drives can not only help an administrator troubleshoot problems, but can allow him/her to maximize the amount of disk space available. Standard formatting utilities tend to configure disks with similar geometry identically. ...

Where Did All the Collaborators Go?

In the wake of World War II there was a desire to deal quickly with war criminals, collaborators, and traitors so that people could get on with their lives again. In practice, especially in eastern Europe, this task was not so easy, as many had fled with the German occupants or at least had been displaced due to the war, and some were even recruited into those forces fighting against Nazi Germa...

Where did all the fun go?

HIV infection and obesity: where did all the wasting go?

BACKGROUND The success of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has led to dramatic changes in causes of morbidity and mortality in HIV-infected individuals. As chronic diseases rates have increased in HIV+ populations, modifiable risk factors such as obesity have increased in importance. Our objective was to evaluate factors associated with weight change among patients receiving ART. METHODS ART-naïv...