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Health: Standards of care

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Ethical and sustainable standards of care — the treatment received by patients and participants in medical research — are essential to ensuring people's well being.

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Opinions and Analysis

Surgeons studying an x-ray film in Ghana Surgery is cheap and effective, but donors neglect it

Doruk Ozgediz and Robert Riviello make the case for devoting more resources to easily treated surgical conditions in Africa.

10 June 2008 | EN
Source: PLoS Medicine

A mother cares for a child with pneumonia in Indonesia Vaccine success signals rethink in pneumonia care

Successful vaccination against the main causes of pneumonia will complicate care of remaining cases, say J. Anthony G. Scott and Mike English.

1 May 2008 | EN | 中文
Source: PLoS Medicine

Uphill struggle against tuberculosis

17 March 2008 | EN | 中文
Source: New England Journal of Medicine


News and Features

Waiting outside a volunteer doctors surgery. San Cristobal, Mexico. 'Wide health gap' among Mexico regions

The southern states of Mexico have the highest mortality rates and 'poverty diseases', says a WHO study.

20 June 2008 | ES

Nevirapine Clinical signs a 'reliable measure' of HIV treatment progress

Clinical examination can provide as reliable a guide to patient progress in HIV treatment as laboratory testing, a study finds.

2 May 2008 | EN | 中文