The Lancet Digest, October 30th – November 5th 2009
The Editorials in this week’s Lancet are on the epidemic of undernutrition, the UK’s liver disease strategy and chronic disease in the Americas.
The Articles are on the effect of glatiramer acetate on multiple schlerosis, adding cytarabine to methotrexate in primary CNS lymphoma, preventing malaria in infants and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for malaria. These are accompanied by Comments on the PreCISe MS trial, primary CNS lymphoma, intermittent malaria treatment in infancy and a malaria research agenda.
The World Report is on undernutrition in Afghanistan, the repercussions of the Philippines’ typhoons and treating Chagas’ disease. There is also a Comment calling for global action against childhood pneumonia.