Every day, worldwide, tens of thousands of people’s lives are changed for the worse because of a stroke. In the United States, every 45 seconds someone will suffer a new or recurrent stroke; every 3.1 minutes someone will die from a stroke.1 Others will have warnings of stroke, which will go largely unheeded, and if heeded, often will go unaddressed. And yet, many strokes can be prevented and t...

The World Hypertension League is encouraging all of us to focus our attention on hypertension through designation of May 17, 2007, as “World Hypertension Day.”1 Most of the readers of Hypertension will pay more attention to this encouragement than the average person. But, even many of us who focus much of our life on patient care or research related to hypertension need to pause and consider th...

Since 2000, on the last Sunday in September we celebrate World Heart Day in order to raise global awareness of the importance of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and promote their control. The event arose as an initiative of the World Heart Federation and enjoys the patronage of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).1...

The year 2001 is going to be very crucial for mental health all over the world. The world Health Organisation, for the first time in its history, has decided to specially focus on mental health activities during 2001. The World Health Day, which is celebrated all over the world on 7th of April, will this year have its theme as mental health. The World Health Assembly which meets in the month of...

1Institute of Mental Health 2Department of Psychiatry, Singapore General Hospital Address for Correspondence: Dr Kuan Tsee Chee, Woodbridge Hospital and Institute of Mental Health, Buangkok Green Medical Park, 10 Buangkok View, Singapore 539747. Email: [email protected] Introduction In medical disease, there are physical and/or mental symptoms and generally, there is a recognised aetiol...

Thomas H. Hostetter,* Daniel J. Kochis, Rachel N. Shaffer, Glenn Chertow, William E. Harmon, Paul E. Klotman, Neil R. Powe,** John R. Sedor, Paul C. Smedberg, Suzanne Watnick, and Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer*** for the ASN Public Policy Board *Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York; American Society of Nephrology, Washington, District of Columbia; Division of Nephrology, Department...

The World Stroke Day (WSD) is celebrated annually on October 29th. The aim of it is to encourage us each to join the global fight against stroke. Every other second, an adult or a child, a man or a woman, old or young, suffers a stroke. Furthermore, every sixth second, someone dies because of stroke. If a stroke victim survives, he/she is often severely disabled for the rest of his/her life. St...

The paintings on the covers of this report are by children at the Maputo Day Hospital, Mozambique, a UNICEF-supported facility providing medicine and psychosocial support, including counselling and antiretroviral therapy, to children living with HIV. UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, brings together the efforts and resources of 10 UN system organizations to the global AIDS...

This is the January 2016 edition of the AIDSFree Prevention Update, an initiative of the Strengthening High Impact Interventions for an AIDS-free Generation (AIDSFree) Project. The AIDSFree Prevention Update is your monthly snapshot of current peer-reviewed literature and state-of-the-art program resources, tools, and curricula on HIV prevention. This month, we're featuring a double edition to ...