Background and aim: Many societies in low- middle-income (LMICs) countries face increasing environmental challenges, while also have minimal capacities to monitor assess their impacts on population health, therefore inform decision making policy. The European Union (EU) has supported the research Environment Health (EH) for more than 3 decades through its Framework Programmes of Research Innova...

Headache disorders are the most prevalent of neurological conditions, and migraine is the most prevalent disabling neurological condition (1). Migraine affects 12% and chronic daily headache 4% of Europeans and Americans (2, 3); these disorders also predominantly afflict women during their peak years of productivity. Headache disorders account for ~9% of total lost labour productivity (>r20 bil...

This article analyzes why people in the United States have major problems in accessing medical care that are due to financial constraints. The author suggests that the cause of these problems is the way in which medical care and elections are funded in the United States, with private sources being the largest component in the funding of both activities. The article includes a comparison of fund...

The quest for research funding takes up increasing amounts of time, as competition gets stiffer and funding more scarce. Surfing the web doesn’t simply provide a welcome distraction from the tedium of writing grant proposals — The spider also found numerous sites offering information, useful shortcuts and handy hints. The Society of Research Administrators (SRA) Grants Web is a great place for ...

The European Science Foundation acts as a catalyst for the development of science by bringing together leading scientists and funding agencies to debate, plan and implement pan-European initiatives. This ESF programme builds on the longstanding European research tradition in cyanobacterial nitrogen fixation. It is, however, the first coordinated European interdisciplinary programme in the field...