Public Health in the News (6/25/17 – 7/1/17)
By Grace Bellinger – Blog Editor Global Analysis shows that the President’s Malaria Initiative has saved the lives of 1.7 million children in Africa since the [...]
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Public Health in the News – October 25, 2015
Global Japan has reported the first possible case of a cancer death resulting from cleanup of the Fukushima disaster. The plague may have affected humans as early as 3000 [...]
Public Health in the News – August 30, 2015
Global A new study has showed that the life expectancy has increased for people across the globe, but people are also spending increasing portions of their lives living with [...]
Public Health in the News – August 9, 2015
Global Christian Bréchot, President of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, writes in a Nature World View piece about lessons we can learn from Ebola responses and measures we [...]
Public Health in the News – July 5, 2015
Global The WHO has named Cuba as the first country in the world to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis. The Democratic Republic of Congo is reporting a [...]
Public Health in the News – March 1, 2015
Global As corn farming becomes more popular in some African regions, the rat population is exploding, leading to increasing numbers of cases of the plague. After the shutdown [...]
Public Health in the News – December 7, 2014
Global New data shows that a new Ebola vaccine seems to be safe and effective. A new study found that Muslims participating in the Hajj – the pilgrimage to Mecca [...]
