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Un país del Sur ante problemas de salud similares a los del Norte
Written by Nicolás Tereschuk
Argentina, a country of medium income, shows some figures of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) similar to an industrialized country. ¿Which public policies are starting to take into account this problem, which in some decades can be a threat for the whole Health System?
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Call It a Death Sentence!
Written by M. Farhan Janjua
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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
