Volume 84, Number 9, September 2006, 685-764

IN THIS MONTH'S BULLETIN

Drugs for rare diseases as essential medicines; WHO taskforce on counterfeit medicines; Neonatal deaths in developing countries; Echinococcosis: risk factors in China; Heart failure in Australia; Single-dose treatment for vaginal discharge; The burden of intimate partner violence
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EDITORIALS

Are drugs for rare diseases “essential”?
- Marcus M Reidenberg
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Health and foreign policy
- David P Fidler & Nick Drager
HTML | Full Text [pdf 56kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.06.035469 [pdf 56kb]

Reaching the targets for TB control: call for papers
- Léopold Blanc & Lindsay Martinez
HTML | Full Text [pdf 55kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.06.035709 [pdf 55kb]

NEWS

News
WHO launches taskforce to fight counterfeit drugs; Free access to journals gives Kenyan science a boost: Can better health statistics save lives?
Counterfeit drugs story [HTML] | Nigeria counterfeit drugs story [HTML] | Free journal access in Kenya story [HTML] | Free journal access & development goals story [HTML] | Health statistics story [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 301kb]

WHO News
A century in public health; WHO response to the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon; Recent news from WHO
Interview [HTML] | Lebanon story [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 141kb]

RESEARCH

Stillbirth and neonatal death in developing countries
- Nhu Thi Nguyen Ngoc et al.
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 197kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.05.027300 [pdf 197kb]

Neonatal deaths in India
- Abdullah H Baqui et al.
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 410kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.05.026443 [pdf 410kb]

Echinococcosis in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China
- Yurong Yang et al.
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 504kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.05.025718 [pdf 504kb]

Mortality from heart failure in Australia, 1997–2003
- Farid Najafi, Annette Dobson, & Konrad Jamrozik
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 350kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.06.031286 [pdf 350kb]

Single-dose treatment of vaginal discharge
- Jacques Pépin et al.
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 490kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.06.029819 [pdf 490kb]

Impact of intimate partner violence in Victoria, Australia
- Theo Vos et al.
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 583kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.06.030411 [pdf 583kb]

POLICY & PRACTICE

“Rare essentials”: drugs for rare diseases as essential medicines
- Pieter Stolk, Marjolein JC Willemen, & Hubert GM Leufkens
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 385kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.06.031518 [pdf 385kb]

Can public–private collaboration help TB detection in the poor & vulnerable?
- Rasmus Malmborg et al.
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 543kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.05.024729 [pdf 543kb]

PUBLIC HEALTH CLASSICS

Effect of Fluoridated Public Water Supplies on Dental Caries Prevalence
- Francis A Arnold, H Trendley Dean, Philip Jay & John W Knutson
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Commentary: One-in-a-million; the first community trial of water fluoridation
- Michael A Lennon
Full Text [pdf 86kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.05.028209 [pdf 86kb]

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