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...then, and you're just seeing the end stages." No longer. Now the major steps in the disease process will be exposed, with each one a potential target for new drugs to treat what goes wrong. "This is a sea change in our thinking about developmental biology," says Dr. Arnold Kriegstein, director of the Institute for Regeneration Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. "I consider it a real transformative moment in medicine...
...pregnant women are examined three times during their pregnancy. "That is why, despite the occurrence of polio in neighboring countries like Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan and frequent traffic between our countries, there hasn't been a single case of polio in Iran over the last eight years," says Dr. Hossein Malek-Afzali, the main founder of the program who won the U.N. Population Award...
...door-to-door in Tehran and talked to mothers about the benefits of smaller families, informed them of the different types of birth control and handed out condoms and pills. "I must give credit to Iran's religious leaders for a pragmatic and creative approach to family-planning," says Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Ahad, an Egyptian who is head of the United Nations Population Fund in Iran...
...faces a whole new set of big-city problems that officials are trying to tackle. "This country is in an epidemiological transition, moving from developing-country problems like communicable diseases to a country that is dominated by the diseases typical of developed countries," explains the World Health Organization's Dr. Ambrogio Manenti...
...four biggest killers in Tehran today are road accidents, estimated to cost 28,000 lives every year; cardiovascular diseases tied to Tehran's polluted air and the high rate of smoking among men; depression; and drug addiction. "More than 70% of factors that affect health are social," says Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Golmakani, a municipality health adviser who is looking at the social determinants of disease...