MEDICINE plays an increasingly important role in international relations, and particularly in our interdependence with Latin America. For the countries south of the Rio Grande, the practice of tropical medicine is of major significance. Tropical medicine is not only curative medicine, diagnosis and treatment of diseases that tend to occur more frequently in the tropics, but also preventive medi...

Latin America (LATAM) is a large region spanning North, Central, and South America, between latitudes 32 N and 56 S. The population of LATAM currently estimated at 625 million is predicted to grow to 779 million by 2050. LATAM is a genetically, ethnically, geographically, linguistically, economically, and racially diverse region, with an admixture of Amerindian, European, Asian, and African anc...

This is an insightful paper on Latin America as a development disappointment. I agree with the authors that Latin America’s performance over the last two decades, or the last five decades, or even the last century is a disappointment. However, the authors’ perspectives on this disappointment are a little open to question. First is the claim that Latin America is a unique disappointment. They ma...

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Scientists widely agree that species extinction has heavily accelerated in the last decades. A grave problem for the conservation of diversity is the still very fragmentary knowledge of the ecology of most species. Attempts of sustainable management and conservation must integrate local communities and their traditional knowledge. Management decisions need to include the high importance of natu...

AIM To investigate the number of publications in cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last decade. METHODS We performed a bibliometric analysis in PubMed from 2001 to 2010 for Latin America and the Caribbean, the United States, Canada, Europe, China, and India. RESULTS Latin America published 4% of articles compared with 26% from the United States/Canada ...

Lutzomyia migonei is a vector of leishmaniasis with a wide distribution in South America, which could favour population differentiation and speciation. Cryptic species of the Lutzomyia longipalpis complex, the widely distributed sand fly vector of visceral leishmaniasis in Latin America, have previously been shown to display distinct copulation songs. We found that Lu. migonei males also produc...