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It’s Time for Individuals to Demand More Action on Non-Communicable Diseases
September 30, 2011 6 min. read

The UN High-Level Meeting (HLM) on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) was held last week in New York and resulted in the adoption of a Political Declaration (PDF here).  As I feared a few weeks ago, the declaration is weak and does not set hard goals or targets to curb the NCD epidemic, which caused two-thirds of […]

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Reading Day…
September 16, 2011 9 min. read

    Today, I’d like to share articles published this week that explore developments and discoveries in global health.  Drug-resistant strains of bacteria are on the rise, and there is a need for conservation of antibiotics.  Genetically-modified mosquitoes are the latest attempt to curb malaria.  Scientists have used modified HIV-1 to kill leukemia (really).  Medical […]

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