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March 2, 2018 9:00 am

The least and most dangerous countries to be a newborn (CNN)

January 4, 2018 9:00 am

Safety concerns derail dengue vaccination program (Science)

Efforts to control dengue suffered a major setback in late November when Sanofi Pasteur announced that its vaccine, the only one on the market, should only be given to those who have already had one infection with the mosquito-borne disease that affects millions of people in the tropics each year.

December 8, 2017 9:00 am

China to roll back regulations for traditional medicine despite safety concerns (Nature)

Scientists fear plans to abandon clinical trials of centuries-old remedies will put people at risk.

November 30, 2017 9:00 am

Sexual harassment: How it stands around the globe (CNN)

November 1, 2017 9:00 am

Echoes of Ebola as plague hits Madagascar (Science)

Hundreds of epidemiologists and technical experts are pouring into Madagascar, one of the poorest countries in the world, to help fight an unprecedented plague epidemic. By 20 October, 1297 people had been infected and 102 had died, and cases are doubling weekly.

October 18, 2017 9:00 am

Polluted environments kill 1.7 million children each year, WHO says (CNN)

Each year, environmental pollutants cost an estimated 1.7 million lives among children under 5, according to World Health Organization reports released Monday.

October 16, 2017 9:00 am

Drug-resistant malaria advances in Mekong (Science)

Some malaria researchers say their worst fears are coming true. A malaria parasite resistant to resistant to a first-line artemisinin combination therapy has rapidly made its way in an arc from western Cambodia, through northeastern Thailand, to southern Laos; now, it has landed in southern Vietnam, where it is causing alarming rates of treatment failure.

October 6, 2017 9:00 am

Changes in the microbiota cause genetically modified Anopheles to spread in a population (Science)

In an alternative strategy, Wang et al.engineered mosquitoes’ gut bacteria. A strain of nonpathogenic bacteria, AS1, was both sexually and transgenerationally transmitted. The strain infected a laboratory population of mosquitoes and persisted for at least three generations. AS1 engineered to inhibit malaria parasite development in the midgut could do so without handicapping the mosquitoes.

September 6, 2017 9:00 am

United States to give Ethiopia $91 million in drought aid for food and medicine (Washington Post)

According to USAID spokesman Clayton McCleskey, Green told Desalegn he was concerned that conditions were deteriorating for people affected by the drought and encouraged the government to “show greater leadership and invest more resources to combat a worsening humanitarian crisis.”

September 1, 2017 9:00 am

Tanzania Gears Up To Become A Nation Of Medical Drones (NPR)

In early 2018, the nation will start using Zipline drones for on-demand delivery of blood, vaccines, medications and other supplies such as sutures and IV tubes.