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Chronic diseases — such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease — are now the biggest health threat facing the developing world; more research and stronger health policies will be vital to tackling this crisis.
(Credit: Adam Gault/Science Photo Library)
Opinions and Analysis
Urgent action needed to tackle malnutrition
Science can help design strategies to tackle malnutrition. The challenge is turning this knowledge into action.
Using genetics to tackle malnutrition
Jim Kaput explains why efforts to tackle malnutrition should consider nutrigenomics — the interplay between food and genetic make-up.
Tropical-chronic diseases link 'could inform health policy'
19 November 2008
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Source: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Africa ill-equipped for fight against cancer
11 September 2008
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Source: Business Daily Africa
News and Features
The challenge of improving nutrition: facts and figures
A healthy diet is more than just calories. Priya Shetty gets the figures on the cost of poor nutrition — and the scale of the challenge.
Monsoon flooding flushes arsenic from rice paddies
Monsoon floods wash away up to two-thirds of the arsenic in affected soil, boosting efforts to target arsenic mitigation.
22 December 2009
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Greener stoves cook up health benefits, study shows
30 November 2009
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