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National levels of personal health-care access and quality can be approximated by measuring mortality rates from causes that should not be fatal in the presence of effective medical care (ie, amenable mortality). Previous analyses of mortality amenable to health care only focused on high-income countries and faced several methodological challenges. In the present analysis, we use the highly standardised cause of death and risk factor estimates generated through the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) to improve and expand the quantification of personal health-care access and quality for 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2015. We mapped the most widely used list of causes amenable to personal health care developed by Nolte and McKee to 32 GBD causes. We accounted for variations in cause of death certification and misclassifications through the extensive data standardisation processes and redistribution algorithms developed for GBD. To isolate the effects of personal health-care access and quality, we risk-standardised cause-specific mortality rates for each geography-year by removing the joint effects of local environmental and behavioural risks, and adding back the global levels of risk exposure as estimated for GBD 2015. We employed principal component analysis to create a single, interpretable summary measure–the Healthcare Quality and Access (HAQ) Index–on a scale of 0 to 100. The HAQ Index showed strong convergence validity as compared with other health-system indicators, including health expenditure per capita (r=0·88), an index of 11 universal health coverage interventions (r=0·83), and human resources for health per 1000 (r=0·77). We used free disposal hull analysis with bootstrapping to produce a frontier based on the relationship between the HAQ Index and the Socio-demographic Index (SDI), a measure of overall development consisting of income per capita, average years of education, and total fertility rates. This frontier allowed us to better quantify the maximum levels of personal health-care access and quality achieved across the development spectrum, and pinpoint geographies where gaps between observed and potential levels have narrowed or widened over time. Between 1990 and 2015, nearly all countries and territories saw their HAQ Index values improve; nonetheless, the difference between the highest and lowest observed HAQ Index was larger in 2015 than in 1990, ranging from 28·6 to 94·6. Of 195 geographies, 167 had statistically significant increases in HAQ Index levels since 1990, with South Korea, Turkey, Peru, China, and the Maldives recording among the largest gains by 2015. Performance on the HAQ Index and individual causes showed distinct patterns by region and level of development, yet substantial heterogeneities emerged for several causes, including cancers in highest-SDI countries; chronic kidney disease, diabetes, diarrhoeal diseases, and lower respiratory infections among middle-SDI countries; and measles and tetanus among lowest-SDI countries. While the global HAQ Index average rose from 40·7 (95% uncertainty interval, 39·0–42·8) in 1990 to 53·7 (52·2–55·4) in 2015, far less progress occurred in narrowing the gap between observed HAQ Index values and maximum levels achieved; at the global level, the difference between the observed and frontier HAQ Index only decreased from 21·2 in 1990 to 20·1 in 2015. If every country and territory had achieved the highest observed HAQ Index by their corresponding level of SDI, the global average would have been 73·8 in 2015. Several countries, particularly in eastern and western sub-Saharan Africa, reached HAQ Index values similar to or beyond their development levels, whereas others, namely in southern sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and south Asia, lagged behind what geographies of similar development attained between 1990 and 2015. This novel extension of the GBD Study shows the untapped potential for personal health-care access and quality improvement across the development spectrum. Amid substantive advances in personal health care at the national level, heterogeneous patterns for individual causes in given countries or territories suggest that few places have consistently achieved optimal health-care access and quality across health-system functions and therapeutic areas. This is especially evident in middle-SDI countries, many of which have recently undergone or are currently experiencing epidemiological transitions. The HAQ Index, if paired with other measures of health-system characteristics such as intervention coverage, could provide a robust avenue for tracking progress on universal health coverage and identifying local priorities for strengthening personal health-care quality and access throughout the world. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Boulevard Industrial REIT (\"Boulevard\" or \"the REIT\") (TSX VENTURE:BVD.UN) is pleased to announce that the unitholders of the REIT have approved all matters voted on at Boulevard's annual and special meeting of unitholders held on June 29, 2015 (the \"Meeting\"). The five trustee nominees proposed by the REIT were elected to the REIT's board of trustees. The trustees are Scott Hayes, Rob Doman, Andrew Lepper, Chris Murray and Ali Mahdavi. Each of Messrs. Hayes, Doman, Lepper and Murray were elected to the board at the previous meeting of unitholders held on March 31, 2014, while Mr. Mahdavi joins the board effective upon his election at the Meeting.

Speaking at the opening ceremony of 15th annual conference of the Assembly, Ayatollah [Mahdavi-Kani] urged President Hassan Rouhani and other officials to take the concept of \"resistance economy\" seriously.

In an interview with Fars Ayatollah Mahdavi-Kani was asked if Iran could trust the US after President Obama's remarks that the military option is still on the table. Ayatollah Mahdavi-Kani replied: \"No, we cannot trust them.

The secretary general of Iran's conservative Militant Clergy Association, Assembly of Experts chairman Ayatollah Mahdavi-Kani, has said that...

Secretary-General of the Militant Clergy Association of Iran Ayatollah Mahdavi-Kani has said that the name of the person to head the list of United Principle-ist Front's parliamentary election candidates will...

He added: \"I have called on the principle-ists to unite; however, I still see that websites and papers carry divisive reports. Nevertheless, I stand firm to see that in the light of Imam's will [the will of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeyni] and the support of the Supreme Leader [Ayatollah Ali Khamene'i], we will be all together. We should not kill the roots to save the branches.

According to [Mehr], during a seminar in Tehran on 21 July, the senior cleric stressed the importance of safeguarding unity among the principle-ists and he \"prohibited them from any split\".

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[Reza Mahdavi] says he's excited about his new role, and the opportunity to help grow Ipanema's global business. \"I always like a challenge, and to take a great European company and make it known in the U.S. is something I have never done,\" he says. \"I have always helped American companies to succeed anywhere else in the world, so this for me, is kind of taking a reverse path.\" \"We will definitely not deviate from our overall go-to-mark strategy, which for us has been to partner with telcos and telecom providers in different parts of Europe and Asia-Pacific,\" says Mahdavi, who is based in Ipanema's U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Mass. As managed services take off in the U.S., Ipanema estimates that about half of its revenue within three years will be derived from the North American market.