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The GACD hopes to pool its members' experience and resources to identify, test and implement the best ways to slow the progress of chronic diseases - both in developed and developing nations. That will be a tall order, particularly since no specific funding has been allocated for the GACD and because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Campaign to Fight Diseases of the Wealthy | 6/16/2009 | See Source »

The WHO's decision to raise the pandemic alert to Phase 6, the highest level, was based on specific criteria, most significantly that the disease is now widespread, sustaining transmission in more than two regions around the world - including the Americas (Mexico and the U.S., which have so far borne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Official: H1N1 Flu Is a Pandemic | 6/12/2009 | See Source »

As Beaver's study shows, not all carriers of the defective MAO-A gene join a gang, and not all gang members have the defect. It remains largely unknown how common the low-active gene variant is in the general population, though one 2002 study indicated that genetic factors, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Which Kids Join Gangs? A Genetic Explanation | 6/10/2009 | See Source »

Which begs the question: Aren't we already there? When the WHO announced over a month ago that it was raising the pandemic alert to phase 5 (out of six phases), there were 114 confirmed cases in just a handful of countries, along with an unknown - though suspected to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The H1N1 Flu: Is This a Pandemic, or Isn't It? | 6/10/2009 | See Source »

The criteria for phase 6, which signals a full pandemic, are just as specific, requiring sustained community-level outbreaks in at least one other country in a different region of the world (in this case, Australia).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The H1N1 Flu: Is This a Pandemic, or Isn't It? | 6/10/2009 | See Source »

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