Life expectancy increased by 5 years between 2000 and 2015, the fastest increase since the 1960s. Those gains reverse declines during the 1990s, when life expectancy fell in Africa because of the AIDS epidemic and in Eastern Europe following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The increase was greatest in the African Region of WHO where life expectancy increased by 9.4 years to 60 years, driven m...

Schlievert et al. recently reported that the increased number of cases of toxic shock syndrome (TSS) observed by their surveillance group over the last 4 years in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area is consistent with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention findings of an 18% increase in the incidence of TSS from 2002 to 2003 (3). He wisely cautioned medical practitioners and women us...

Maritime glaciers in the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau (SETP) featuring largest maritime (TP) have been experiencing dramatic mass loss and interannual variability over past two decades, increasing risks of glacier avalanches glacial lake outbursts. However, spatially explicit high-temporal-resolution entire SETP has not well quantified. We developed an approach to integrate satellite altimetry ...