The heart is arguably the organ that suffers most obviously from increasing economic globalisation. Although mortality from coronary artery and cerebrovascular diseases has been declining in western Europe and North America since the mid to late 1970s, this is not the case elsewhere in the world. Increasing industrialisation and urbanisation, while raising living standards and increasing lifesp...

jeremy shiffman’s editorial appropriately calls on making all forms of power more apparent and accountable, notably productive power derived from expertise and claims to moral authority. this commentary argues that relationships based on productive power can be especially difficult to reveal in global health policy because of embedded notions about the nature of power and politics. yet, it is e...

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conclusions it has the potential to cause disseminated infection, and an increasing number of immunocompromised patients prone to disease and the suboptimal preventive potency of this vaccine suggest the need for a global attempt to review its benefits and disadvantages. results worldwide, a proportion of new cases with multidrug-resistant tb (mdr-tb) were reported at 3.5% in 2013 without a sig...