Obesity – the continuously growing threat

Obesity in America: A Growing Threat

Obesity: a growing threat to health in China.

For the Alder Hey report see http://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/ default/fi les/new_reports/ AAAA1973.pdf A report published by the UK Centre for Health and the Public Interest (CHPI) last week raised concerns about the quality of care in some private hospitals and highlighted the eff ect on the National Health Service (NHS) of these failings in care. The review describes inadequate reporting, both of...

Ebola — A Growing Threat?

population. Unfortunately, pregnant women continue to become seriously ill with influenza, and some of them die. Research is need ed to further elucidate the reasons why some pregnant women are not vaccinated so that the problems can be addressed. In addition, by implementing the current antiviral treatment recommendations, clinicians can prevent complications in women with influenza. We need t...

Ebola--a growing threat?

arenavirus. Yet the region has seen previous ebolavirus activity (see map). In the mid-1990s, scientists discovered Côte d’Ivoire ebolavirus (now known as Taï Forest ebolavirus) as a cause of a single reported nonfatal case in a researcher who performed a necropsy on an infected chimpanzee. The episode initiated a major research investigation in and around the Taï Forest region — an effort that...

Growing threat of superbugs

As researchers become increasingly concerned about measuring and preserving biodiversity, microbiologist Hugh Pennington, at the University of Aberdeen, recently wrote that where you stand on biodiversity depends on where you sit. As a researcher working with some of the novel antibiotic-resistant bacteria, Pennington wrote of his lifelong efforts to fight biodiversity and to research all means...