January 15, 2020
(SciDevNet) – The World Health Organization (WHO) sought to allay fears about the presence of swine flu in Yemen after the war-torn country’s health authorities said a growing outbreak had claimed more than 270 lives in three months. The Houthi-affiliated … Read More
January 9, 2020
(BBC) – At least 17 prisoners have died over the past week in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s biggest prison, a charity says. Aid workers say the deaths were caused by a lack of food and medicine, as well as … Read More
December 17, 2019
(Bloomberg) – The smoke blanketing Sydney is a “public health emergency,” according to a coalition of Australian doctors and researchers who say climate change has helped fuel the wildfires that have produced unprecedented haze. Air pollution across Australia’s most-populous city … Read More
December 17, 2019
Bioethics (vol. 33, no. 3, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Political Legitimacy and Research Ethics” by Maxwell J. Smith and Daniel Weinstock “Illegitimate Authorship and Flawed Procedures: Fundamental, Formal Criticisms of the Declaration of Helsinki” by … Read More
December 13, 2019
(The Guardian) – Health officials are investigating an alarming spike in Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with many blamed on a single individual who appears to have contracted the disease for a second time this year. … Read More
December 5, 2019
(Aljazeera) – The Syrian government has systematically targeted health facilities and health workers in opposition-held areas as part of a wider strategy aimed at “breaking the civilian population”, according to a new report by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). In … Read More
November 29, 2019
(STAT News) – Final data from a landmark clinical trial of four Ebola therapies conducted in the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo show two of the drugs dramatically reduced the risk of dying from the disease, … Read More
November 26, 2019
(Nature) – A surge in violence and unrest has forced Ebola responders in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo city of Beni to remain indoors for the last week — hampering efforts to contain the virus. The World Health … Read More
November 13, 2019
(BBC) – A second Ebola vaccine is to be offered to around 50,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as part of a major clinical trial. The Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine will be used alongside a vaccine made … Read More
October 29, 2019
(Undark) – Inside the hospital, Dr. Zamaryalai Ghafori, 34, moved calmly among the patients, helping to bandage a shrapnel wound on an officer before moving swiftly to dress the bleeding head of a young boy involved in a motorcycle crash. … Read More
