Will the leprosy endemic in Rwanda soon be under control?

Polio will soon be history.

When the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched in 1988, there were more than 350 000 cases a year in more than 125 countries. In 2003, there were just 784 cases. This year will be critical for the initiative led by WHO, Rotary International, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and UNICEF. If vaccination campaigns can immunize all children in Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and ...

Will the Treatment Protocols for Schizophrenia Be Changing Soon?

In recent decades the understanding of the core physiology giving rise to schizophrenia has advanced markedly. Current pharmacological interventions fail to target the core problems in schizophrenia. Several important outcome studies call into question whether current medications actually make long term outcomes worse. These new studies follow the recognized negative side effect of anti-psychot...

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How Soon Will Jurassic Park Open?

In the fictional movie “Jurassic Park” dinosaurs were cloned by obtaining the genetic information necessary to make a dinosaur from ancient DNA (aDNA) sequences extracted from dinosaur blood found in the gut of mosquitoes embedded in amber. Although most scientists still consider the science in Jurassic Park fantasy, acquiring dinosaur DNA has become a possibility over the past few years based ...

A new health-related quality of life instrument for leukemia: will it be widely adopted soon?

Introduction The rapid escalation in the treatment costs of cancer, as well as modest survival gains of the treatment, drive an emerging need to determine the value of cancer therapy from the perspectives of stakeholders such as patients, payers, and health care administrators. Despite the fact that global health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is not considered as the primary efficacy endpoint...