WHO issues rallying cry to keep fight against SARS on track

Rallying United Nations organizations in the fight against noncommunicable diseases.

Editorials 623 Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), namely cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes , cause 63% of the world's total mortality. 1 Of the premature deaths from NCDs that occur in people between the ages of 30 and 70 years, 86% – i.e. approximately 12 million – occur in developing countries. 2 The cumulative economic losses to low-and middle-income c...

A CRY for help to fight fat.

OBESITY HAS BECOME a serious and growing public health problem (27). Attempts to develop new therapeutic strategies have focused mostly on energy expenditure and caloric intake. Recent studies link energy homeostasis to the circadian clock at the behavioral, physiological, and molecular levels (7, 17, 25). In fact, most aspects of physiology, including sleep-wake cycles, cardiovascular activity...

Who is Funding What in the Fight Against Pneumonia?

Lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs), including pneumonia, are a leading cause ofmortality globally. In 2013, an estimated 708,600 children aged 1 to 5 years of age died from LRTIsmaking it themain killer in this age group; approximately 99% of these deaths occurred in developing countries. (Nair et al., 2013; GBD2013Mortality andCauses of Death Collaborators, 2015). In developed countrie...

Researchers Fight to Keep Implanted Medical Devices Safe from Hackers

Implantable medical devices— such as insulin pumps, cardiac pacemakers, and cardiac defibrillators—have become increasingly popular since being introduced about 50 years ago. In the US alone, 2.6 million people rely on IMDs. An increasing number of today’s devices are equipped with wireless technology enabling, for example, remote checks by healthcare workers. “Patients often receive at-home, b...

Contemporary issues in the fight against blood doping in sport.