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Despite the growing burden of non-infectious diseases such as cardiovascular disease or cancer in developing countries, they continue to receive little attention from local governments or international aid agencies.
(Photo credit: World Diabetes Foundation)
Opinions and Analysis
Good news on maternal health
Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, discusses the implications of news that maternal deaths have dropped by nearly a third since 1980.
Biomed Analysis: Mothers' health needs targeted science
Maternal health needs a new, pragmatic, research-led approach targeted specifically for developing countries, says Priya Shetty.
How to fill the gaps in global clinical research networks
22 July 2009
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Tropical-chronic diseases link 'could inform health policy'
19 November 2008
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Source: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
News and Features
Sufferers urge progress on sickle cell drug Nicosan
As supplies of Nicosan, the Nigerian sickle cell drug, run dry, patients are growing desperate for production to resume.
GM bananas could cut blindness, anaemia in East Africa
Field trials of GM bananas rich in iron and vitamin A have gone well, but several more years of research and regulation lie ahead.
30 July 2010
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Cheap diabetes test developed in Vietnam
14 July 2010
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Arsenic linked with one in five deaths in Bangladesh
5 July 2010
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