May 7, 2024
(Axios) – A new report calls on all levels of government to strengthen U.S. biodefense measures and urges policymakers to codify parts of a national strategy to address an array of biological threats. Why it matters: Threats in the form … Read More
April 26, 2024
(Associated Press) – Nearly 282 million people in 59 countries suffered from acute hunger in 2023, with war-torn Gaza as the territory with the largest number of people facing famine, according to the Global Report on Food Crises released Wednesday. … Read More
April 23, 2024
(ABC News) – Haiti’s health system has long been fragile, but it’s now nearing total collapse after gangs launched coordinated attacks on Feb. 29, targeting critical infrastructure in the capital and beyond. The violence has forced several medical institutions and … Read More
April 22, 2024
(Associated Press) – The Chinese government froze meaningful domestic and international efforts to trace the virus from the first weeks of the outbreak, despite statements supporting open scientific inquiry, an Associated Press investigation found. That pattern continues to this day, … Read More
April 11, 2024
(NBC News) – It was quiet, grim work for a recovery team this week as it sifted through the rubble of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Shovels in hand, it unearthed what appeared to be a femur, a shoulder blade, … Read More
April 3, 2024
(The Guardian) – The Israeli military’s bombing campaign in Gaza used a previously undisclosed AI-powered database that at one stage identified 37,000 potential targets based on their apparent links to Hamas, according to intelligence sources involved in the war. In … Read More
April 2, 2024
(Associated Press) – Several humanitarian aid organizations suspended operations in Gaza on Tuesday after Israeli airstrikes killed seven World Central Kitchen workers. The nonprofits, including World Central Kitchen, said they now need to determine whether their workers can safely provide … Read More
March 26, 2024
(NBC News) – A major Baltimore bridge collapsed like a house of cards early Tuesday morning after it was struck by a container ship, sending several vehicles plunging into the dark water below, sparking an intense search for survivors and … Read More
March 26, 2024
(NPR) – Now, in a new perspective paper in Nature Communications, Plowright and a team of 24 ecologists, infectious disease scientists and policy experts have distilled their collective observations into three recommendations to prevent spillovers and halt epidemics and pandemics … Read More
March 21, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Four years ago, the country was brought to its knees by a world-historic disaster. COVID-19 hospitalized nearly 7 million Americans and killed more than a million; it’s still killing hundreds each week. It shut down schools and … Read More
March 18, 2024
(Axios) – An international draft treaty aimed at bolstering readiness for the next pandemic enters a final round of scheduled negotiations Monday, with key disagreements remaining about how much knowledge and product drugmakers must share with the world. Why it … Read More
March 18, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The Palestine Red Crescent Society estimated at the end of December about 12,000 people, including about 5,000 children, had lost one or more limbs because of the war in Gaza. The organization, based in the West … Read More
March 18, 2024
(New York Times) – A gang assault on Haiti’s capital has left an already weak health care system in tatters. More than half of the medical facilities in Port-au-Prince and a large rural region called Artibonite are closed or not … Read More
March 11, 2024
(New York Times) – Nearly 60,000 pregnant women in Gaza are suffering from malnutrition, dehydration and lack of proper health care, according to the Gaza health ministry. In a statement on Friday, the ministry said that about 5,000 women in … Read More
March 4, 2024
(Axios) – There were about 488 deaths per day from excessive drinking in the U.S. during the height of the pandemic from 2020 to 2021, part of a surge in alcohol-related fatalities seen over five years, the Centers for Disease … Read More
March 4, 2024
(NPR) – At least six Brazilian states in addition to the Federal District are facing dengue epidemics and 17 cities have declared a state of emergency as the country has already registered 1 million cases of dengue in the first … Read More
March 1, 2024
(The Atlantic) – In New York, where I live, notices linger in the doorways of apartment buildings and stores. A colleague in Woburn, Massachusetts, sent me a photo of a sign reminding park-goers to gather in groups of 10 or … Read More
February 29, 2024
(New York Times) – Alcohol-related deaths surged in the United States by nearly 30 percent in recent years, with roughly 500 Americans dying each day in 2021, according to a new study published by the Centers for Disease Control and … Read More
February 28, 2024
(STAT News) – An unprecedented shortage of cholera vaccine has public health experts fearing that a recent surge of outbreaks across developing countries will only worsen, a situation they argue is as regrettable as it was avoidable. At least 16 … Read More
February 27, 2024
(NPR) – The monthly rate of antidepressants being dispensed to young people increased about 64% more quickly during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics. Researchers used the IQVIA Longitudinal Prescription Database to examine … Read More
February 23, 2024
(STAT News) – In the years leading up to Russia’s invasion, Ukraine had become a burgeoning hub of clinical trials, particularly in oncology. The war put a hold on the vast majority of those studies. But as the country marks … Read More
February 23, 2024
(MedPage Today) – More than 134,000 cancers might have gone undiagnosed during the first 10 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study of national trends in cancer incidence. Annual cancer incidence fell almost 30% short of the expected … Read More
February 22, 2024
(NPR) – Ratcliff, a quadriplegic who uses a ventilator, has lived at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist since she was 13. She wants to leave, too. But not to the nursing home the hospital found for her in another state. … Read More
February 21, 2024
(The Hill) – A growing number of children in Gaza are “acutely malnourished” and isolated in the northern part of the territory as Israel pushes forward with expanding its military operations in the region, according to a study by UNICEF. … Read More
February 16, 2024
(Wired) – In the face of such widespread injury, the Kyiv government has turned to Ukraine’s now-famous civic tech infrastructure for help. As the war enters its third year, the municipal government is starting to build a citywide system for … Read More
