One of the greatest public health successes, that is often unheralded, has been the massive decline in smoking rates, which are now translating into reduced deaths from cancer and heart disease.
The rise in global incidence is slowing because HIV epidemics are slowing in Africa, but it is unclear when the global incidence rate will begin to decline.
Widespread resistance to GM foods has resulted in a global showdown. U. S. exports of genetically modified corn and soy are down, and hungry African nations won't even accept the crops as food aid.
This prompted central Banks in Europe, the US and Asia to offer emergency injections of liquidity last Thursday and Friday, a move that continued on a smaller scale yesterday.
The muzzle is large and bulky in proportion to the size of the skull, diminishing slightly in width and depth from junction with the skull to the nose.
The share of three - to nine-person companies offering health insurance declined from 58% to 49% between 2002 and 2008 for the simple reason that it was too expensive.
The decline of our fish stocks may have changed the landscape forever, but the kipper, a cold-smoked herring, still remains one of the great tastes of England.
The question of whether the decrease in plant fecundity caused by the spraying of pesticides actually causes a decline in the overall population of flowering plant species still remains unanswered.