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In this edition: 1. Training In Depression And Suicide: Need For Change? Stan Kutcher, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia 2. Suicide Paradox Explained: Australian National Strategy Barry Nurcombe, Prin

Brian Greenwood Brian Greenwood, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Brian Greenwood has won the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize for his numerous achievements in tropical disease research. He t

Michel Coleman Michel Coleman (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) explains how cancer will become a new priority in the EU.

Zulfiqar Bhutta Reference: The Lancet, Maternal and Child Undernutrition Special Series With one child in three killed by it, childhood and maternal undernutrition are discussed in a special series of

Megan Nguyen REFERENCE: Poster Session 104 K-1096, 47th Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), Chicago, 2007 MEGAN NGUYEN, Western University in Pomona, Calif

Thomas File Thomas File, Summa Health System, Akron, Ohio Community Associated Pneumonia is a sizeable problem for health systems, and what is more, some strains of the frequent culprit – strept

Michele Pearson Michele Pearson, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta A community-wide approach is needed to combat MRSA according to a new assessment presented to the conference in Was

Yehuda Carmeli Yehuda Carmeli, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston The Washington DC conference also heard about a hospital infection that has had a worryingly low profile: acinetobacter baum

Klaus Stohr Klaus Stohr, World Health Organisation, Geneva One of the keynote speeches in Washington described how avian influenza still looms large on the global health horizon. With the disease like