This is How Many Lives Would Be Saved By An HIV VaccineA study published this week in a key scientific journal shows the extent to which developing even a moderately effective...
The “Four Famines,” ExplainedHunger will be the humanitarian disaster of 2017. The UN already declared a full fledged famine in parts of South...
Biofilms and flesh-eating bacteria: Meet the World’s 12 Scariest SuperbugsWe know now exactly which drug-resistant “superbugs” are most likely to kill us. This week, the World Health Organization (WHO)...
France is Killing All of Its Ducks. Here’s WhyFine foie gras is about to become much more expensive. The French Ministry of Agriculture has made the drastic decision...
What We Know About Ebola’s “Superspreaders:” The tiny fraction of infected people who caused the most infectionsNew research on the 2014 ebola outbreak reveals important new details about how ebola spread so quickly across Western Africa–and...
Drug Resistant Malaria Found in Europe. How Worried Should We Be?By luck of geography, malaria does not occur in the United Kingdom. When patients go to the doctor in the...
5 Big Global Health Victories to Anticipate in 2017. (This is Humanity Affirming Stuff!)If you are looking for some good news, read on. The end of Guinea Worm Global health experts have been...
Influenza is a threat every year, but this flu season has the World Health Organization on “High Alert”The flu strikes every winter. But this influenza season is particularly dangerous. Outbreaks of “avian influenza” or “bird flu” have...
Trump’s New “Global Gag Rule” is Much, Much More Far Reaching than George W. Bush’s PolicyPresident Trump yesterday signed a presidential memorandum re-instating the Global Gag Rule. For most of the day yesterday the actual...
