September/October 2011 Global Health Matters Newsletter

Global Health Matters, Fogarty International Center's newsletter, includes the latest information on global health research, and is published by the Office of Communications. The newsletter is distributed by email every two months.

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Inside this Issue

• UN meets on chronic, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), adopts declaration on prevention
• Shining a spotlight on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs): opinion by Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass
• Q and A with NHLBI Acting Director Dr. Susan Shurin
• Focus on Chronic Diseases
• Chronic, non-communicable diseases (NCDs): A silent scourge threatening to overwhelm global health
• Fogarty funds new non-communicable disease programs
• Reducing the guesswork and cost of rating heart disease
• Inexpensive polypills may add years for heart patients
• The chronic challenge of household air pollution
• Confronting South Asia's diabetes epidemic
• Changing the color of the rice bowl to beat diabetes
• India residents build park, exercise more to reduce diabetes risk
• Building the capacity to battle cancer
• Former Fogarty Director Dr. Phillip E. Schambra dies
• Solving a math puzzle to stop infectious disease
• Fogarty supports zoonotic disease research in Tanzania
• Lessons learned from history's influenza pandemics
• Syrian Tobacco Center rated most productive in research
• The promise of rotavirus vaccine in developing nations
• Call for new research to slow drug-resistant diseases
• Italy and US reach drug abuse research accord
• African genetics and nursing funding opportunities released
• Global health briefs
• People in the news

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