4 million more health workers required to improve global health
...ces can make the required impact unless there is a renewed investment in human resources--health-care workers--to deliver health services in the areas where they are most needed, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. The Joint Learning Initiative--a consortium of more than 100 health leaders--proposes that mobi...Important priorities for prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS
.... The first commentary is a call to action for a renewed public-health strategy to prevent sexually transmitted HIV. Against a background of twenty years of debate over the value of different behaviour-change approaches, authors Daniel Halperin (University of California San Francisco, USA) and colleagues o...Report finds new model of care can improve quality, lower costs and increase physician efficiency
...ad implementation of the New Model, because of its renewed focus on primary care services, would likely result in a significant reduction in health care expenditures by all payers, including employers, government and individuals. Models suggest that if every American used a primary care physician as their us...Study shows haploidentical natural killer cells may provide hope for some patients with AML
...ily member and artificially stimulated may provide renewed hope for some patients who have advanced acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), a highly fatal cancer of the bone marrow, that has become resistant to standard treatment with chemotherapy. Natural killer cells are part of the body's immune system. The ...Flu vaccination benefits people of any age with high-risk medical conditions
...he authors conclude. "Therefore, efforts should be renewed to convince providers and patients of the clinical usefulness of such vaccination, notably among younger high-risk persons."...Giant iceberg B-15A edges past floating ice pier
... shallow seamount. This latest development poses a renewed threat to the nearby pier of land-attached ice known as the Drygalski ice tongue. The sheer scale of B-15A is best appreciated from space. The bottle-shaped Antarctic iceberg is around 120 kilometres long, with an area exceeding 2500 square kilometre...Kandel pays tribute to Hubel's and Wiesel's 25-year partnership and work in neurobiology & vision
...most intricate mechanisms. Their discoveries also renewed debate on the "nature" vs. "nurture" question: Are the nerve connections responsible for vision innate or do they develop through experience via the early life of an animal or human? In celebration of their unusually long collaboration and the pub...Study provides new estimates of the causes of child mortality worldwide
...ty by two-thirds from the 1990 rate will depend on renewed efforts to prevent and control pneumonia, diarrhea, and undernutrition in all regions, and malaria in the Africa region," said Robert Black, MD, MPH, professor and chair of the Department of International Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Hea......ty 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 in the neonatal period, primarily due to preterm delivery, sepsis or pneumonia, and birth asphyxia sh...