Curbing world’s most fatal diseases: consensus created by health experts offers global prescription

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health
Toronto
21-Nov-2007

20 ‘Grand Challenges’ in chronic non-communicable diseases, 1st agreed roadmap to reduce rising toll of slow killer illnesses

435030Several of the world’s most eminent health scientists and organizations today publish a landmark global consensus on the 20 foremost measures needed to curb humanity’s most fatal diseases, their study featured in Nature magazine.

Full release:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-11/pols-cwm111807.php

Coverage summary:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pRwdzmg01IrTQz_-FXlwjBA&hl=en

Example coverage, by Agence France Presse, click here, by TIME Magazine Online, click here