September 05, 2014
A roundup of news on drug resistance and other topics in global health.
CDDEP Director Ramanan Laxminarayan will discuss a new approach to conserving antibiotics at next week’s TEDMED conference. To learn more about the speakers and presentation topics, visit the TEDMED website. [TEDMED]
Evidence Action’s Agha Ali Akram discusses his recent research on reducing early childhood diarrhea in this blog post for CDDEP. [CDDEP]
A new portable device provides rapid malaria diagnoses with greater accuracy than conventional testing methods. [Nature]
Health officials in several states are worried about rising numbers of parents sending their children to school without vaccines. [ThinkProgress]
Some British health experts have criticized the WHO’s recent recommendation to curb e-cigarette use, saying e-cigarettes could save up to 50,000 lives in the UK. [The Guardian]
The “food gap” in the US is widening, with diet quality having improved among wealthy people and deteriorated among poorer populations over the past decade. [The Atlantic]
In a series of articles published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, researchers identify a connection between Type 2 diabetes and tuberculosis, reporting that diabetes may cause up to 15% of TB cases. [EurekAlert]
Budget and staff cuts at the WHO have diminished the organization’s ability to respond to the Ebola crisis. [The New York Times]
A new study reveals that double mastectomies do not increase the chance of survival among breast cancer patients when compared with those who have just had cancerous tumors removed. [The Independent]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a $25 million grant to Oregon Health & Science University researchers who are developing a vaccine that has shown promise in preventing HIV in primates. [Reuters]
An experimental drug produced by the pharmaceutical company Novartis has shown striking efficacy in treating patients with heart failure. [The New York Times]
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