ast week, member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) advanced another step in the nearly 1-year rigorous process of selecting its next director-general. Candidates for the position presented their vision of international health work and the role of this global health body. Having worked at WHO in a number of capacities in the area of infectious diseases, I know well that international...

the most important factor in donor-recipient matching for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is their hla typing. for many patients, we can not find a full-matched donor. in high risk patients, one locus  mismatched related donors are suitable alternatives. (1, 2) since the matching of patients and their siblings usually is based on low resolution hla typing, the matching of one locus mism...

what counts as wise? Second, does the public, after considerable thought, think that our society has a moral obligation to pursue lines of research which may benefit present and future generations? I say “moral obligation” because it is sometimes implied by advocates of recombinant D N A research that science would be guilty of a sin of omission if it did not continue and promote research so pr...

Existing Internet applications usually rely on a secure communication channel (such as SSL) or users’ passwords to provide a secure communication. And usually we assume that the browser and the computer we are using are trustworthy. However, these assumptions are obviously unrealistic. In this paper, we try to address these issues, in particular, we describe a trust model, call the WHO model, w...

While distributed algorithms is a highly active area, and the correctness of distributed algorithms is usually based on very subtle mathematical arguments, there have been very limited efforts to achieve automated verification of distributed algorithms. In this note we discuss the major technical obstacles and methodological challenges. Our hope is that the collection of issues collected in thi...

2574 www.thelancet.com Vol 388 November 26, 2016 The 2016 WHO guidelines on antenatal care were published earlier this month and are widely welcomed because they are not only academically robust, but also relevant to end-users and patients. The guidelines cover antenatal care for normal pregnancies and have adopted a woman-centred, holistic approach to care. They cover nutritional interventions...

This paper uses an overlapping generations model to analyze the relationship between economic development and income distribution and the effect of government taxation and transfers on the distribution of income. Individuals differ in their inherited stocks of human capital and therefore in their productivity and income, and their leisure and investment decisions. Individual productivity depend...