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Death Threat
Written by Kapell
Daniel Kapellmann investigates a healthcare paradox at the heart of non-communicable diseases. Can developed nations lead the way to a healthier world?
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Siddharta Mukherjee: “A positive attitude does not cure cancer, anymore than a negative one causes it”
Written by Future Challenges team
Here you can find a short introduction to the book “A Biography of Cancer: The Emperor of all Maladies” by Siddharta Mukherjee. This book won the Pulitzer prize for non-fiction. It deals with all of the unknown aspects of the fight against cancer. Mukherjee’s book makes cancer seem less like […]
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Should we Regulate Sugar?
Written by Future Challenges team
Alcohol is regulated, so is cigarette and so are drugs; should we regulate sugar, too? asks this woman, writing for the New York Times. It seems that the health problems caused by this substance, although slow-moving, create numerous insidious complications and cause incalculable burdens for national health budgets. Read more […]
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How politics, commerce and science complicated the fight against a “silent epidemic”
Written by Future Challenges team
In a globalized world, problems tend to involve more than one issue. In the case of non-communicable diseases, a constellation of political, commercial and scientific issues play in to the fight against these terrible diseases. Communicable diseases are the past; it is time for innovation. Read more
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Non-communicable Diseases – A race against time
Written by Future Challenges team
Here the case of South Africa serves an example of the “race against time” represented by NCDs, either they start preventing, or the economic and social costs will become unaffordable in the next years. Read more
