Contents
Vol 6, Issue 253
Contents
Editorial
- WHO for the 21st Century
WHO is leading the search for better ways to improve health in the face of new challenges to the well-being of individuals and populations.
Commentaries
- A Role for Science Investments in Advancing Newborn Health
Advances in neonatal health require funding and appropriate allocation of resources.
- The Unconscionable Gap Between What We Know and What We Do
Policy failures precipitate unacceptable treatment of mental illnesses worldwide.
Perspectives
- Emerging Viral Diseases: Confronting Threats with New Technologies
Emerging viral diseases continue to threaten human health, but recent scientific advances are better positioning us to treat them and to detect and control the causative pathogens.
- Contemporary Vaccine Challenges: Improving Global Health One Shot at a Time
Developing new vaccines for additional diseases as well as improving their supply and delivery is crucial for global health.
Review
- Point-of-care and point-of-procedure optical imaging technologies for primary care and global health
Optical imaging technologies can improve frontline health care in low- and high-resource settings, resulting in more rapid and accurate diagnoses and more immediate and appropriate therapies.
Editors' Choice
- The Ubiquitinase Pathway Takes Center Stage in Viral Myocarditis
Targeted degradation of a viral protease by the cardiac myocyte ubiquitinase system keeps viral replication and cardiac damage at bay.
- Culture Shock! Brain-Like Tissue Grown in Vitro Has Potential
Careful biomaterial design supports generation of electrophysiologically relevant brain-like tissue in vitro.
- Two Paths Diverged in a Schwann Cell
Balanced activation of both Mek-Erk and PI3K-Akt pathways in Schwann cells enhances myelination and enables functional recovery in a rodent model of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
