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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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Cover of September/October 2011 issue of Global Health Matters

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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