Public Health in the News – October 18, 2015
Global Several of the Nobel prizes went to people whose work has an impact on public health: the Nobel in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to scientists who found [...]
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Public Health in the News – April 26, 2015
Global The biggest science news story to come out in a long time: Chinese scientists reported that they edited the DNA of human embryos. Carl Zimmer provides a great summary [...]
Public Health in the News – March 22, 2015
Global In many parts of the world, the prevalence of nearsightedness is dramatically increasing. Some studies are linking myopia in children to the amount of time spent [...]
Public Health in the News (February 8th, 2015)
Global In an interesting twist of events, a recent NPR article discuses the remarkable observation that many poor countries like Tanzania (99%) have far better vaccination [...]
Public Health in the News – September 29, 2014
Global Nature News has a fantastic profile of Sheik Humarr Khan and other public health workers as they fought against Ebola in Sierra Leone. Science is not enough to stop [...]
