Reflecting on ICN2: was it a game changer?

Reflecting on ICN2: was it a game changer?

At the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), November 2014, 170 member states endorsed the Rome Declaration on Nutrition and a Framework for Action. The Rome Declaration committed to ending malnutrition in all its forms while the Framework for Action offered 60 voluntary actions to help achieve this. These documents and ICN2 itself had the potential to be a major step forward for...

The game changer.

wants to make the transition between medical school and residency seamless. A lthough she no longer heads a medical school, Deborah Powell is making a mark on medical education. She's trying to break down the wall between medical school and residency and wants to see students trained in a way that's practical , efficient and better reflects the way medicine is practiced today. " Medicine has ev...

Graphene: the game changer?

C 2012 American Chemical Society Graphene: The Game Changer? I t has only been eight years since the isolation of graphene 1 and over a year since the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics was jointly awarded to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene.” Nevertheless, the number of graphene publications is still rapidly growing. T...

Immunotherapy for Lung Cancer – a Game Changer!

GeneXpert—A Game-Changer for Tuberculosis Control?

Tuberculosis (TB) kills more people than any other single infection, the global burden of TB cases and drug resistance are increasing [1], and most patients still only have access to an inadequate diagnostic test developed more than a century ago. Recent evaluations of a desktop machine called the GeneXpert MTB/ RIF that in less than two hours simultaneously detects Mycobacterium tuberculosis a...