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Richard Smith: Prevention of diabetes – from impossible to widely available in 30 years

Posted on June 13, 2011June 15, 2011 by BMJ

In the 1980s it was conventional wisdom that type 2 diabetes couldn’t be prevented, said Michael Engelgau of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, when I chatted to him in Changzhi, China last week. The condition was treatable but not preventable. Dr Engelgau went onto to tell me about the thinking that led […]

The spread of swine flu

Posted on June 29, 2009July 23, 2009 by BMJ

“We’re saying there have been at least a million cases of this new H1N1 virus in the United States so far this year. “ That’s according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) which held a press conference on Friday which shed some more light on the epidemiology and spread of the disease. So […]