Public Health in the News (10/28/18 – 11/10/18)

By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Editor-in-Chief

Global

• Merck & Co. Inc. is ending a long-term agreement to supply a life-saving rotavirus vaccine to children in West Africa.
• World Health Organization reports that 90% of children in the world are breathing toxic air.

National

• New analysis shows that gun injuries send over 8,000 children in the United States to the emergency room each year.

Northwestern

• Northwestern Medicine professors co-author a study showing that a minimally invasive surgery for cervical cancer leads to worse survival.
• A wireless skin sensor developed at Northwestern University could improve the lives of hydrocephalus patients.