Changing World Order: An Observation from Okinawa, the “Front Line”

Changing Eating Habits on the Home Front: Lost Lessons from World War II Research

Programs intended to improve nutrition often fall short of expectations. One exception, however, occurred during the rationing years of World War II, when U.S. citizens were encouraged to incorporate protein-rich organ meats into their protein-deficient diets. Unfortunately, most of the insights resulting from these efforts remained unpublished or in limited distribution. For the first time, th...

On the front line.

14 The drylands are on the front line of climate change, and they include the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. We are already seeing in them the harrowing effects of climate change on poverty, survival, health, hunger, human well-being — and on peace itself, because the heavily impacted drylands are among the most unstable parts of the world. The stretch from Senegal through to Afgha...

Parasite Diagnostics, an Ever-Changing World

From Lisbon to the World...

Changing epidemiology of Angiostrongyliasis cantonensis in Okinawa prefecture, Japan.

*Corresponding author: Mailing address: Okinawa Prefectural Institute of Health and Environment, Ozato 2085, Ozato-son, Okinawa 901-1202, Japan. Fax: +81-98-945-9366, E-mail: [email protected] Okinawa Prefecture experienced an outbreak of angiostrongyliasis in January of 2000 (1). The origin of the infection’s outbreak could not be identified. We examined the past records of Angiostrongy...