October 10, 2024
(The Guardian) – The director of the only major hospital in the northern Gaza Strip now offering specialised care for children has described a “catastrophic situation” as Israeli forces launched new ground assaults and airstrikes in the north and centre … Read More
October 10, 2024
(STAT News) – The director general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and Rwanda’s health minister on Thursday criticized the U.S. government’s decision to urge Americans to avoid travel to Rwanda because of the country’s ongoing Marburg … Read More
October 8, 2024
(New York Times) – The government is again trying to insert itself into women’s childbearing decisions, knocking on doors and making calls with questions some find downright invasive. Faced with a declining population that threatens economic growth, the Chinese government … Read More
October 8, 2024
(Axios) – A new, long-acting shot to prevent HIV could represent a turning point in efforts to reduce cases around the world — if enough people can access it. Why it matters: The twice-a-year injection to prevent sexually transmitted infections … Read More
October 8, 2024
(CBS News) – In response to an unprecedented outbreak of Marburg virus in Rwanda, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now plan to screen arriving international travelers for their risk of bringing the deadly Ebola-like disease into the country. … Read More
October 4, 2024
(Nature) – Nature talks to the mpox coordinator for Africa’s public-health agency about how the continent is handling its first jabs ever. Mpox has spread to 15 African countries in 2024, six of which had never seen a single case … Read More
October 4, 2024
(New York Times) – The daunting health challenges facing sick and disabled children in Ukraine are a cruel reminder that the war’s tentacles stretch far beyond the front line. They have suffered from misdiagnoses, lapses in treatment, a lack of … Read More
October 4, 2024
(Reuters) – Rwanda will start cinical trials of experimental vaccines and treatments for Marburg disease in the next few weeks, its health minister said on Thursday, to fight the country’s first outbreak of the viral fever, which has so far … Read More
October 2, 2024
(Undark) – Precision medicine relies on genetic data that’s lacking in Latin America — especially for Indigenous groups. At stake is the practice of precision or personalized medicine, which uses individual variability, including genes, to make decisions regarding diagnosis or … Read More
October 2, 2024
(Vox) – We are entering a new era of global health. It starts with some good news: Around the world, the number of people dying from infectious diseases every year is falling. Fewer women are dying in childbirth. More infants … Read More
October 1, 2024
(NPR) – “It’s the crime of the century,” says Bruce Lanphear. He’s not talking about a murder spree, a kidnapping or a bank heist. Lanphear – an environmental epidemiologist at Simon Fraser University – is referring to the fact that … Read More
September 30, 2024
(UPI) – The U.S.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday said it was in conversation with Rwandan health officials amid an outbreak of Marburg virus. The central African country is dealing with 26 known cases of the deadly hemorrhagic … Read More
September 30, 2024
(Rest of World) – Tomb sweeping is a Chinese tradition where people clean ancestors’ graves, present flowers and food, and burn paper money for the deceased to use in the afterlife. But as millions of Chinese have moved away from … Read More
September 27, 2024
(New York Times) – Just weeks before this summer’s Olympics in Paris, officials at the headquarters of the World Anti-Doping Agency got some startling news. Lawyers for the organization told a meeting of top officials in late May that a … Read More
September 27, 2024
(New York Times) – Health experts, gathering at the U.N., have begun to shift their focus to try to provide access to basic drugs in countries where preventable deaths from infections occur too frequently. For more than a decade, antimicrobial … Read More
September 27, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The owner of Silicon Valley’s Done Global was arrested, but the telehealth company’s staff in China still provides easy access to stimulants for Americans Federal authorities came down hard on Done Global, the California-based telehealth startup … Read More
September 25, 2024
(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday the donation of 1 million mpox vaccine doses and at least $500 million to African countries to support their response to the outbreak. Biden made the announcement at the United Nations … Read More
September 23, 2024
(ABC News) – For almost a week, ophthalmologist Elias Jaradeh has worked around the clock, trying to keep up with the flood of patients whose eyes were injured when pagers and walkie-talkies exploded en masse across Lebanon. He has lost … Read More
September 20, 2024
Developing World Bioethics (vol. 24, no. 3, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 19, 2024
(NPR) – Researchers had found genetic evidence that raccoon dogs, an exotic species known to be susceptible to the virus, were among the animals for sale at the wet market in Wuhan, China, where the outbreak was first identified. Now … Read More
September 19, 2024
(Wired) – A UN report proposes that the organization take a much more active role in the monitoring and oversight of AI. A United Nations report released today proposes having the international body oversee the first truly global effort for … Read More
September 19, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 391, no. 9, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 18, 2024
(Associated Press) – Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday it has closed its operations in Russia after 32 years, citing a Justice Ministry letter that said the medical aid group had been removed from a register of foreign nongovernmental organizations. The … Read More
September 18, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – A now-ended adoption program created the perception that Chinese girls weren’t valued. One adoptee, once hidden in a grocery bag, found there was more to her own story. In “Ricki’s Promise,” a 2014 documentary by Changfu … Read More
September 17, 2024
(NPR) – PURPOSE 2, the name for the latest trial sponsored by Gilead Science, the California-based maker of lenacapavir, found the drug to be 96% effective in preventing HIV infections in the newly released results of a clinical trial of … Read More
