The “nutrition transition” is a rather benign-sounding name for a striking and fast-moving
phenomenon: a global epidemic of obesity. Long considered a by-product of modern life in rich, …

Faith McLellan of Health and Human Services, which has recently updated its own government"
healthfinder site", said," Trying to get health information from the Internet is like drinking …

Aristotle’s observations on the power of catharsis. 25 Novels that portray the history of medicine,
whether sketchily or in depth, give readers a snapshot of the development of medicine …

Faith McLellan studies a cyberspace narrative of illness that grew out of a father's anguish
after his son was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia. The essay discloses ways in …

… Anne Hudson Jones and Faith McLellan have gathered a veritable who's who in the field of
publication ethics for biomedical research. All those with a stake in biomedical research will …

World Report preacher, Michael Woroniecki. Woroniecki’s rhetoric was of a fire-andbrimstone
type. His proclamations include the following:“Hell is right on the doorstep, waiting to bring …

One of the biggest contributors to the explosive increase in childhood obesity, including
such complications as type 2 diabetes, is aggressive marketing and advertising by the food …

The recent death of a 24-year-old healthy volunteer in a research study at Johns Hopkins
University (see Lancet 2001; 358: 2130) has highlighted many potential weaknesses in the …

Once upon a time, plenty of children were unruly, some adults were shy, and bald men wore
hats. Now all of these descriptions might be attributed to diseases—entities with names, …

July 10 in Mexico City by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP; http://www.
undp. org). But the world’s poor also need ICT. The report emphasises the potential of …