A committee of experts appointed by the National Institutes of Health in the United States recently concluded that “half of America’s adults are not getting enough calcium, and that is contributing to a plague of brittle bones and fractures that produce $10 billion a year in medical bills, ” according to The New York Times. Reportedly, more than 25 million people in the United States are afflicted with osteoporosis, a bone disease.
नई और पुनःउद्‌गमी बीमारियों को पहचानने और उनका सामना करने के लिए केन्द्रों की एक विश्‍वव्यापी व्यवस्था की माँग कर रहा है ।