global health

Andy Haines Peter Goodwin and Sarah Maxwell take part in the discussions held in London on the controversial role of the corporate sector in tackling the looming threat to global health of obesity aro

Sandy Cairncross In this edition of Audio News, presented by Peter Goodwin, Sandy Cairncross (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Maggie Black (Earthscan), and Girish Menon (Water Aid) ta

David Moore Seven-Day Low-Cost Tuberculosis Diagnosis REFERENCE: N Engl J Med 355: 1539-50 DAVID MOORE, Imperial College, London and Lima A new test for TB (reported in the New England Journal of Medi

Simon Lewin Adherence to TB Medication PLoS Med 4(7):e238. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040238 SIMON LEWIN, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine A new systematic review has shown that we don&#8

Chris Curtis Malaria Nets Should be Mass Distributed CHRIS CURTIS, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine The current method of distributing insecticidal nets for malaria isn’t working w

Martin McKee The Threat of Oral Tobacco MARTIN MCKEE, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Martin McKee on the smoking ban – and how the tobacco industry is now looking to promote oral

LISA McNALLY, Institute of Child Health, London, and University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban REFERENCE: The Lancet 2007; 369:1440-1451 A new study suggests that current guidelines for the treatment of sev

NICHOLAS GRASSLY, Imperial College London REFERENCE: Lancet 2007; 369:1356-62 A case-control study performed in India has provided hope that polio could finally be eradicated. India is one of six coun

ANTHONY FAUCI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda REFERENCE: N Engl J Med 2007;356:2073-81 Is there any hope for an HIV vaccine? According to Anthony Fauci, of the National Institutes of Health i

JAIME MIRANDA, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Peru An antifibrinolytic agent, tranexamic acid (commonly used to reduce bleeding during surgery) is being investigated as first-aid to c

MARK REISMAN, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle REFERENCE: ABSTRACT ACP Internal Medicine 2007, ERA 002 Drug eluting stents may not always be the automatic choice over the bare metal variety for patient

HILARY SELIGMAN, University of California, San Francisco REFERENCE: ABSTRACT Press Release, San Diego ACP 2007 Doctors can best help their patients with diabetes by taking particular care to put manag

NIR BARZILAI, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York REFERENCE: ABSTRACT ERA 001 ACP 2007, San Diego The prospect of modulating the activity of “longevity genes” to extend life was

JAIME MIRANDA, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Peru The consequences of migration from rural to urban areas in Peru has provided an opportunity for studying the impact of a radically a

DAVID MOORE, Imperial College, London and Lima REFERENCE: N Engl J Med 355: 1539-50 A new test for TB, trialled in Peru, has proved more powerful and yet faster and cheaper than alternatives, making i