Progress, but still a long way to go.

Improving the World’s Health through the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Perspectives from Rwanda

The world has made a great deal of progress through the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to improve the health and well-being of people around the globe, but there remains a long way to go. Here we provide reflections on Rwanda’s experience in working to meet the health-related targets of the MDGs. This experience has informed our proposal of five guiding principles that may be useful for co...

The end of HIV: Still a very long way to go, but progress continues

In an Editorial accompanying PLOS Medicine's Special Issue on Advances in Prevention, Treatment and Cure of HIV/AIDS, Guest Editors Steven Deeks, Sharon Lewin, and Linda-Gail Bekker discuss priorities in the field and the content of the issue.

S.T at TREC 2017: Real-Time Summarization Track

This paper presents the participation of Shanghai Normal University to the TREC 2017 Real-Time Summarization (RTS) Track. We adopted three different composed methods by applying various factors, i.e., count, cosine and distance to measure relevance between a tweet and a given topic. By setting static relevance threshold for each run, we selected the most relevant but non-redundant tweets and th...

Atrial Fibrillation in Heart Failure Steady Progress but Still a Long Way to Go

Management of atrial tachyarrhythmias, especially atrial fibrillation (AF), in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) remains a major challenge. It is widely recognized that CHF promotes AF and that AF worsens CHF. An individual with either condition who develops the other has higher morbidity and poorer prognosis. The prevalence of AF and CHF is expected to increase as the population age...

Making progress, but still a way to go.

Financing Long-term Care: Some Ideas From Switzerland; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan”

Ikegami reviews the implementation of mandatory long-term care insurance systems in Germany and Japan, which are organized as pay-as-you-go systems. I propose to go one step further and implement a multi-pillar, mandatory and voluntary long-term care financing system, which combines pay-as-you-go with capital-funded elements. The proposal is based on the observation tha...