The Lancet Digest: 12th – 18th March 2009
This week’s Lancet Editorials are on the future of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria; food-borne illnesses in the USA and the UN’s plans to reduce road traffic accidents.
The Articles are on the prognostic significance of visit-to-visit variability in blood pressure in hypertension patients; the differences between classes of antihypertensive drugs’ effectiveness in preventing stroke and group cognitive behavioural intervention for lower back pain. These are accompanied by Comments on stroke and blood pressure variation and CBT for back pain in primary care.
The World Report is on the final steps for Obama’s healthcare reform bill, mental health in Sri Lanka and free healthcare for mothers and infants in Sierra Leone. Also of interest to global health are Comments on the continuing impact of diarrhoea on child mortality; medical complicity in torture and new WHO HIV treatment guidelines.