November 15, 2024
(NPR) – For years, Namazzi — who is also a lecturer at Makerere University College of Health Sciences — has turned to a medication called artemisinin. The drug is derived from an ancient Chinese malaria treatment that was rediscovered several … Read More
November 14, 2024
(The Guardian) – Scientists say increase from 1990 to 2022 was largest in low- and middle-income countries and lack of treatment ‘concerning’ The number of people with diabetes has doubled over the past 30 years to more than 800 million … Read More
November 12, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – Established in 2017, the Deep Learning Indaba now has chapters in 47 of the 55 African nations and aims to boost AI development across the continent by providing training and resources to African AI researchers like … Read More
November 11, 2024
(Wired) – The Pentagon is pursuing every available option to keep US troops safe from the rising tide of adversary drones, including a robotic twist on its standard-issue small arms. Amid a rising tide of low-cost weaponized adversary drones menacing … Read More
November 8, 2024
(Medical Xpress) – A new World Health Organization (WHO) study published in eBioMedicine names 17 pathogens that regularly cause diseases in communities as top priorities for new vaccine development. The WHO study is the first global effort to systematically prioritize … Read More
November 8, 2024
(Reuters via MSN) – At least 73 people have died of mysterious causes in the Sudanese town of al-Hilaliya, besieged by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, the Sudanese Doctors Union said late on Wednesday. It is one of dozens of … Read More
November 8, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine AI (vol. 1, no. 11, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
November 7, 2024
(BBC) – Australia’s government says it will introduce “world-leading” legislation to ban children under 16 from social media. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the proposed laws, to be tabled in parliament next week, were aimed at mitigating the “harm” social … Read More
November 6, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Drone attacks have made any time outdoors in the city, even a cigarette break, potentially deadly. ‘Run for shelter.’ Russian drones are hunting civilians in Kherson, unleashing a new kind of terror on Ukraine’s largest front-line … Read More
November 6, 2024
(ABC News) – British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox that first emerged in Congo, marking the first time the variant has caused a cluster of illness outside of Africa. … Read More
November 5, 2024
(New York Times) – He worked alongside another doctor to show that a simple rehydration therapy could check the ravages of cholera and other diarrhea-inducing diseases. Richard A. Cash, who as a young public-health researcher in South Asia in the … Read More
November 5, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 391, no. 14, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
November 4, 2024
(NPR) – Marburg virus is notorious for its killing ability. In past outbreaks, as many as 9 out of 10 patients have died from the disease. And there are no approved vaccines or medications. That was the grim situation in … Read More
November 4, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Cast aside in favor of sons, some women say trauma of one-child policy shattered their sense of family Having scrapped the one-child policy, the Communist Party is now championing the term “family values” and pressuring women … Read More
November 4, 2024
(Axios) – Almost 200 countries at a UN biodiversity conference in Colombia agreed on a system for distributing proceeds from products derived from genetic information into a global conservation fund. Why it matters: Countries are seeking fair compensation for their … Read More
October 30, 2024
(WHO) – The World Health Organization (WHO) today published a new report on tuberculosis revealing that approximately 8.2 million people were newly diagnosed with TB in 2023 – the highest number recorded since WHO began global TB monitoring in 1995. … Read More
October 29, 2024
(Associated Press) – More than 8 million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis last year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, the highest number recorded since the U.N. health agency began keeping track. About 1.25 million people died of TB last … Read More
October 25, 2024
(New York Times) – Climate change, civil conflict and growing resistance to insecticides and treatments are all contributing to an alarming spread of cases. More than 6.1 million malaria cases, and 1,038 deaths, have been recorded in the country this … Read More
October 24, 2024
(Nature) – The third-largest outbreak in history of the deadly Marburg virus was sparked by a single jump of the pathogen from an animal to humans, preliminary genomic evidence shows. The outbreak began last month in Rwanda, where it has … Read More
October 22, 2024
(NPR) – Khmil says not only have doctors and patients been displaced because of the fighting, the conflict has also put the fundamental building blocks to make life at risk. “Many of [the doctors] evacuated with sperm, eggs and equipment,” … Read More
October 18, 2024
(Associated Press) – The number of mpox -related deaths in Africa has surpassed 1,000, the head of the continent’s top public health agency said Thursday, warning of the continuing threat of cross-border contamination and a lack of rapid test kits. … Read More
October 17, 2024
(Associated Press) – Years of conflict in eastern Congo have created a dire mental health crisis. Aid groups say the number of people seeking care has spiked as fighting intensifies. Some of the worst affected struggle to survive in cramped, … Read More
October 15, 2024
(New York Times) – Nearly two million children may die of malnutrition because a product used to treat the condition is in short supply, the United Nations Children’s Fund said on Monday. Four countries — Mali, Nigeria, Niger and Chad … Read More
October 15, 2024
(Wired) – Global Intelligence claims its Cybercheck technology can help cops find key evidence to nail a case. But a WIRED investigation reveals the smoking gun often appears far less solid. If the technology works as advertised, then Global Intelligence … Read More
October 14, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Imagine if having children came with more than $150,000 in cheap loans, a subsidized minivan and a lifetime exemption from income taxes. Would people have more kids? The answer, it seems, is no. These are among … Read More
