The good news is that tuberculosis deaths are declining steadily. The bad news is that we are wildly off track to meet the bold targets set for controlling the world’s #1 lethal infectious disease.
March 20, 2019
A WHO advisory committee—set up after the birth of the first “CRISPR babies”—is calling for a global registry for studies on human genome editing. The registry would cover germline editing (changes to the genome that can be passed on), and the less controversial studies…
March 18, 2019
An “oddball” virus with a distributed genome—split among 8 segments—promises to turn our knowledge of viruses upside down.
March 12, 2019
Rise with Refugees: Responding to an Urgent and Accelerating Global Crisis In collaboration with Global Health NOW from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Stanford Refugee Research Project is convening UN leaders and other experts to explore how to…
February 26, 2019
Farming is the major source of income for young adults residing in sub-Saharan Africa. But for those living in the mycetoma belt, it’s also a curse—one that will continue to destroy lives until affected countries step up and prioritize mycetoma surveillance, management and…
February 25, 2019
The WHO's strategy aimed at halving deaths and disability by 2030 from snakebites—which kill up to 138,000 people and injure 400,000 each year—is taking shape. The snakebite envenoming roadmap, which will be launched in Geneva this May, centers on delivery of up to 3…
February 21, 2019
Machine-learning algorithms may offer a better system than ever for tracking deadly cholera outbreaks. Current methods of tracking cholera outbreaks are fairly inaccurate, based on reports of patients with watery diarrhea at local hospitals. Researchers may have found a way…
February 15, 2019
From handwashing in Kenya to Ebola in Nigeria, the vogue human-centered design—including co-designing with communities, interviews, speedy prototyping—has swept global health with qualitative information. But to properly serve the customers of the industry—the 800 million…
February 11, 2019
Stalled for over 4 years, studies that modify bird flu viruses—which could make them riskier to humans—are set to recommence within weeks. Federal officials had deemed the experiments too dangerous to conduct. But last year, they were quietly green-lit and NIH funding is…
February 8, 2019
Getting mosquitoes to scram is an age-old challenge for humans and scientists alike. “On a lark,” a group of scientists tried putting them on a diet—and it worked pretty well. Naturally gluttonous mosquitoes gorge themselves on human blood “the same way that we might…