Over the past six months, pandemic flu has come to the forefront.

Measures we can take to handle pandemic flu if it emerges in the next six months are limited and bleak, but wise investments and strong science could well bolster the public health armamentarium considerably over the next five years.

We may be six months on from the earthquake and through a mercifully mild winter, but there is still the monsoon to come and the next winter is only seven months away.

The next six or seven months will really be an interesting time.

In the past six months, we've gotten a much larger piece of a much smaller pie.

We are far away from a durable peace. Too much blood has been shed in the past six months.