The growing GM challenge

The growing GM challenge

Frustration at the public resistance to GM crops in Europe is leading to campaigns to highlight future developments.

Hepatitis C virus: the growing challenge.

BACKGROUND Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major cause of liver disease worldwide. In industrialized countries, intravenous drug users (IDUs) are the main reservoir of infection. Relatively little information is available on HCV in the developing world. SOURCES OF DATA Peer reviewed publications and presentations at major academic meetings. AREAS OF AGREEMENT HCV-related cirrhosis and death fr...

Growing Tomorrow’s School Leaders: The challenge

Aging successfully: a growing challenge.

The aging population is a looming iceberg that threatens to sink the healthcare system as it sails through the 21st century. For the first time in history life expectancy in developed and developing countries has reached a limit that strains the very system that made longevity possible. Diseases that people used to die from last century are now conditions they live with, and the medical establi...

Growing challenge of Darwin's detractors

Evolutionary biologists in the US got a little early seasonal cheer in December with a detailed and comprehensive attack on the increasingly widespread notion of intelligent design. A Pennsylvania judge ruled that it could not be taught alongside Darwin’s theory of natural selection in biology classes. Dover Area School Board members violated the Constitution when they ordered that its biology ...