Editorial
Climate Change and Infectious Diseases: The Next 50 Years
It is accepted that the world is warming and driving most of “climate change”; but while the science is “in”, the reasons and required...
Predicting Suicide and its Prevention
Suicide, “the act of taking one’s own life”, is a behaviour that has existed over many centuries and across different cultures of human civilisation....
Credat Emptor – The Sacrosanct Doctor-Patient Relationship
Of late, holistic patient care and rising healthcare costs have entered the public discourse, leading to a call for judiciousness in healthcare utility and...
The Threat of Multiresistant Nosocomial Fungi
In 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised concern about the worldwide threat of antimicrobial resistance to public health. Many bacteria which cause common...
Editorial to ‘Triple vessel coronary artery disease and retinal nerve fibre layer thickness’
The retina provides a “window” to examine both neurological and vascular manifestations of systemic diseases. A common eye disease is glaucoma, a progressive optic...
Body, Heart and Mind: The Battle Against Tobacco Continues
Tobacco use continues to impact health on a global scale. In 2015, 11.5% of all deaths worldwide (or a total of 6.4 million deaths)...
Malaria in 2018: Looking to the Past and Moving into the Future
World Malaria Day is observed and commemorated annually on 25 April in recognition of the ongoing global burden and the efforts to control it....
New Approaches to the Treatment of Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world’s most important infectious diseases, with an estimated 10 million cases and 1.7 million deaths per year—the leading...
World Cancer Day
World Cancer Day is a global event in the fight against cancer. Falling annually on 4 February, it is an initiative by the Union...
Follow-up Care and Outcome Evaluation of High-Risk Preterm Infants: A Life-Course Commitment
Neonatology can be considered as one of the most successful medical innovations of the latter half of the twentieth century. A slow, synergistic accretion...