New estimates for the causes of child deaths worldwide
...005) Professor Black comments: "Achievement of the millennium development goals of reducing child mortality by two-thirds from the 1990 rate will depend on renewed efforts to prevent and control pneumonia, diarrhoea, and undernutrition in all WHO regions, and malaria in the Africa region. In all regions, deaths...2005: A critical year for action towards millennium development goals
...global efforts required in 2005 to ensure that the millennium goals are realisable by 2015. Jeffrey Sachs and John McArthur highlight in the first article how 2005 marks a pivotal moment in international efforts to fight extreme poverty. The Millennium Development Goals, borne of the UN Millennium Summit in 20...US study highlights clear link between increased fast-food consumption and obesity
...esity is increasing in the USA; at the turn of the millennium around 30% of Americans were clinically obese (having a body-mass index of 30 kg per metre squared or more) compared with 23% of the population during the period 198894. Obesity causes an extra 300,000 deaths among Americans and health-care costs of ...Child health must become UNICEF's priority over next decade
...g the progress on global health in relation to the millennium development goals concluded in Abuja, Nigeria, last week, the rhetoric of success repeated by those charged with ending the needless deaths of millions of the world's children masks their own deep-seated failure to grapple with critical institutional...4 million more health workers required to improve global health
...are needed if the required health improvements and millennium goals are to be met by 2015. Human resources in sub-Saharan Africa are singled out as a top priority: the authors estimate that this region needs to triple its current human resources infrastructure by creating one million extra workers to deliver he...Urgent need for investment in human resources to respond to global health crises
...veloped countries requires urgent attention if the millennium goals for global health are to be achieved. Vasant Narasimhan from Harvard University, USA, and colleagues discuss how, despite the global community being in the midst of a growing response to health crises in developing countries (focused on mobili......ch priorities to help address the challenge of the millennium development goals. It comments: "The next 12 months will provide the biomedical research community with its most important opportunity for a generation to contribute to global health and security. In November 2004, an international summit on health r...Jefferson Lab/Hampton University partnership results in new medical instrumentation center
...ical Instrumentation, says although we're in a new millennium we're not quite yet to the tricorder level. Still, the creation of the Center also known by its acronym CAMI could lead to development of an unprecedented array of portable, hand-held, non-invasive diagnostic devices based on detector technologies ...HFES releases new multiperspective book on team activities
...nded to assist "knowledge workers who toil in this millennium . . . to blaze some new trails as innovations in technology create challenges for improving work. . . . It is intended to promote understanding to enable human factors practitioners, information technologists, computer scientists, psychologists, engi...Sharon and Tracey make way for Kelly and Louise in the easy virtue stakes
...pected andthe authors say that as we enter the new millennium these names should make way for the more popular'Hampshire Girls'....Synchronise clocks to find the real millennium baby!
...rder to validate the birth of the so-called "first millennium baby", labour wards should ensure that all their clocks are set accurately! Dr Jonathan Round and Dr Nigel Kennea report that in a study of their labour ward, where 2,600 babies are delivered each year, all six clocks in the delivery rooms were slo...USC Historian Sifts World's Oldest Printed Medical Books For Clues To Riddle Of Gender
...Canon" compiled over severalcenturies in the first millennium CE. Where Laqueur saw a European "one sex"patterned on a male norm, Furth argues that "the Yellow Emperor's human body ismore truly androgynous, balancing yin and yang functions in everyone." "The very term 'sex,'" she notes, "which in Laqueur's anal...