Policy Forum: Staying Just a Step Ahead

Parasite clearance after malaria therapy: staying a step ahead of drug resistance

The discovery and development of the artemisinin class of antimalarial drugs is one of the great recent success stories of global health. However, after at least two decades of successful use, resistance has finally emerged and appears to be spreading rapidly throughout South-East Asia in spite of our best efforts at containment. If this were also to occur in Africa, it would have disastrous im...

Staying a step ahead of the hackers: the importance 
of identifying critical Web application vulnerabilities.

Step Ahead

Results: There was no impact of the intervention on change in BMI from baseline to 12 ( 0.272; 95% CI 0.271, 0.782) or 24 months ( 0.276; 95% CI 0.338, 0.890) in intention-to-treat analysis. When intervention exposure (scale 0 to 100) was used as the independent variable, there was a decrease of 0.012 BMI units (95% CI 0.025, 0.001) for each unit increase in intervention participation at the 24...

a step ahead in clinical pharmacokinetic services

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25 % Ahead of Schedule and just at “ Step 2 ” of the SAMI

The Sidky Agile Measurement Index (SAMI) is a 5step value-based roadmap to agility. The SAMI is designed to help guide organizations seeking to become more agile. Each of SAMI’s 5 steps (Collaborative, Evolutionary, Integrated, Adaptive and Encompassing) aims to instill a new value in teams and organizations. This report shows how an organization that is just at Step 2 of the SAMI has realized ...