Diverse attention is now being given to Alzheimer's, a disease that is poised to become the nightmare of the 21st century without transformative breakthroughs in care, treatment, and prevention.
Is there truly the political will, the communal will, and the global funding to really change the course of this epidemic to get to where we need to be? While HIV is still not curable, it is treatable and certainly preventable.
All eyes are on London right now as they count down to the 2012 Olympic Games, but the event with the most global significance just happened 5,000 miles away in Vancouver.
Whoever makes the better sell of his Medicare vision may prove victorious come November.
What if a preeminent global health authority declared there's a public health "time bomb" among us? What if he were the person most responsible for leading the coalition that turned HIV/AIDS from a certain death sentence into a manageable illness?
