Neglected diseases

Vol. 449, No. 7159 (12 September 2007)

Produced with support from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, Foundation for the NIH, TDR, Burroughs Wellcome Fund and MRC for Global Health

Tropical diseases affect more than one billion people, yet there are few effective treatments. And despite much research activity, scientific innovations with therapeutic potential are not making it out of the laboratory. The articles in this Outlook examine what can be done to stimulate the development of effective medicines and deliver them to the people who need them most.

India

Vol. 436, No. 7050 (28 July 2005)

India is changing: children are being immunized with affordable vaccines produced by India's own biotechnology industry and exported to poorer countries. In this Outlook, Nature examines the problems, like disease, poverty, and bureaucracy, and the opportunities that could make India a world player on the scientific and technological stage.

Fertility

Vol. 432, No. 7013 (4 November 2004)

"All couples and individuals have the basic right to decide freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children and to have the information, education and means to do so." Few would disagree with this statement, agreed by world leaders at the United Nations' International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, a decade ago.

Malaria

Vol. 430, No. 7002 (19 August 2004)

Produced with support from MMV, EDCTP, Impact Malaria, GSK, MIM, MVI, NIAID and Novartis

Malaria: The long road to a healthy Africa. The Nature Outlook Malaria zeroes in on the major issues in the war on malaria, with a particular focus on Africa. It analyses the current state of affairs, the major scientific and other obstacles in treatment and control, and the promising areas where substantial progress might be made.

Japan

Vol. 429, No. 6988 (13 May 2004)

Japan is changing. The cynic might say that this can't be so — that Japanese policy-makers always talk about change but that nothing ever happens. It is indeed true that new policies in Japan often end up having little ultimate effect, that new systems are trumped by conventional ways of doing things. The latest policy initiative — the reorganization of the universities into administratively independent organizations — might seem to be just another in a long line.

San Diego

Vol. 426, No. 6967 (11 December 2003)

San Diego: Rise of a high-tech cluster. Nature is pleased to present a supplement on the San Diego region. The features in this supplement examine the evolution of San Diego from a small military town to a high-tech juggernaut.