The growing epidemic of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) has impacted the national health systems, policies, and socioeconomic developments, thereby leading to increasing country level disparities. Despite substantial improvements in health indicators made in the past decade, the Indian health-care system continues to contribute disproportionately to the global disease burden, wherein NCDs holds...

The kinesin motor protein family members move along microtubules with characteristic polarity. Chimeric motors containing the stalk and neck of the minus-end-directed motor, Ncd, fused to the motor domain of plus-end-directed kinesin were analyzed. The Ncd stalk and neck reversed kinesin motor polarity, but mutation of the Ncd neck reverted the chimeric motor to plus-end movement. Thus, residue...

OBJECTIVES Investigate the association of heat exposure on years of life lost (YLL) from non-communicable diseases (NCD) in Nouna, Burkina Faso, between 2000 and 2010. DESIGN Daily time series regression analysis using distributed lag non-linear models, assuming a quasi-Poisson distribution of YLL. SETTING Nouna Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Kossi Province, Rural Burkina Faso....

Editorials After long being neglected, the global problem of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) has received increasing attention , culminating in a United Nations high-level meeting on NCDs in New York in September 2011. 1 The growing global NCD crisis is now killing 36 million people each year and needs urgent and comprehensive action. 2 Attention is mainly focused on cardiovascular disease, dia...

Background. The prevalence of chronic non-communicable disease (NCD) comorbidity in low- to middle-income countries is increasing, yet evidence on the pattern, prevalence, awareness and treatment NCD inadequate. Objectives. To investigate awareness, control comorbid hypertension diabetes, underlying risk factors Mpumza, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa (SA). Methods. Data were gathered by S...

We study the impact of Best Buy’s recent price-matching policy on the price competition between Best Buy and Amazon, and examine whether the policy can defeat consumers’ showrooming behavior. We first empirically explore Best Buy’s and Amazon’s pricing patterns by using unique datasets collected from different sources. We find that both retailers reacted to the new policy; Best Buy and Amazon a...

Nanocrystalline diamond (NCD) films are promising materials for bone implant coatings because of their biocompatibility, chemical resistance, and mechanical hardness. Moreover, NCD wettability can be tailored by grafting specific atoms. The NCD films used in this study were grown on silicon substrates by microwave plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition and grafted by hydrogen atoms (H-termin...

BACKGROUND In 1997 Hong Kong reunified with China and the development of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) started with this change in national identity. However, the two latest discussion papers on Hong Kong's healthcare reform have failed to mention the role of TCM in primary healthcare, despite TCM's public popularity and its potential in tackling the chronic non-communicable disease (NCD) ...

Elevated intraocular pressure is the most prevalent and only treatable risk factor for glaucoma, a degenerative disease of the optic nerve. While treatment options to slow disease progression are available, all current therapeutic and surgical treatments have unwanted side effects or limited efficacy, resulting in the need to identify new options. Previous reports from our laboratory have estab...