BACKGROUND Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a life-shortening lung disease that leads to significant morbidity in patients. The devastation IPF imposes extends beyond patients: it affects their spouses, loved ones and any other person who might take on the role of informal caregiver (IC) to the patient. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to capture ICs' perspectives on how they are aff...

BACKGROUND On May 12, 2008, an earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale jolted Wenchuan, China, leading to 69,227 deaths and 374,643 injured, with 17,923 listed as missing as of Sept. 25, 2008, and shook the whole nation. We assessed the devastating effects on people's post-earthquake concern about safety and health. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS From June 4 to July 15, 2008, we surveye...

BACKGROUND Research on physical activity in relation to obesity gradually becomes more focused on environmental determinants, which can potentially influence people's health choices. The present article addresses the topic of physical activity from a wider sociological perspective. Our pilot study was designed with the objective of testing the applicability of a method included in the EC 6th Fr...

www.thelancet.com Vol 390 July 22, 2017 341 More than three decades into the global HIV pandemic, there are still 2·1 million new infections each year and 36·7 million people are living with HIV. By mid2016, 18·2 million people were on antiretroviral treatment—about 50% of people living with HIV. Yet in 2015, 15 million people living with HIV were estimated to be unaware of their status and 1·1...

The mountain pine beetle has wreaked havoc in North America, across forests from the American Southwest to British Columbia and Alberta, with the potential to spread all the way to the Atlantic coast. Millions of acres of forest have been lost, with severe economic and ecological impacts from a beetle outbreak ten times larger than previous outbreaks. Because of its importance and impact on for...

During the past two decades the fear of infectious epidemic diseases has resurfaced. The appearance of AIDS as well as familiar bacterial infections that have become resistant to antibiotic therapy has undermined the postWorld War II optimism that epidemic infectious diseases were under control and no longer posed a threat to humanity. Moreover, growing recognition that potentially deadly virus...