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Disasters , Environment , Featured , Health , Soil / 03/11/2018
The Cold War’s toxic legacy: Costly, dangerous cleanups at atomic bomb production sites

William J. Kinsella Hanford was one of three large facilities anchoring the Manhattan Project – the crash program to build an atomic bomb. Seventy-five years ago, in March 1943, a mysterious construction project began at a remote location in eastern Washington state. Over the next two years some 5

Test spots malaria in two minutes, without blood

Anita Makri It picks up crystals excreted by the malaria parasite and hints at a shift towards self-diagnosis in the community. Magnetism and light have been combined in a test that can diagnose malaria in under two minutes without the need to take blood. The new test, which has yet to undergo cli

Global Leaders and WHO establish a commission for Non-Communicable Diseases

WHO announced a new high-level commission, comprised of heads of state and ministers, leaders in health and development and entrepreneurs. The group will propose innovative solutions to accelerate prevention and control of the leading killers on the planet like heart and lung disease, cancers, and

Could A Rare, Deadly ‘Superbug’ Fungus Be Gaining A Foothold?

David Thill, Medill News Service The number of U.S. patients infected with a rare but dangerous fungal “superbug” called Candida auris has climbed quickly to 200 as of Dec. 31, according to the latest figures from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2016, there were only s

Dengue vaccination: when being the first is a bad idea

Crispin Maslog A dengue vaccine fiasco leaves Filipinos wary of immunisation drives When the Philippines launched its dengue vaccination programme on 4 April 2016, using Sanofi Pasteur’s newly approved ‘Dengvaxia’, there was great fanfare and optimism. This week, the Public Attorney’s Office

Dhaka chokes on air pollution

Kamran Reza Chowdhury A multitude of factors are contributing to increasingly polluted air in Bangladesh, but so far not much is being done about it. Bangladesh’s national environment agency has rung an alarm bell over air quality in Dhaka, deeming it “extremely unhealthy” as the dry season be

Listen: How A ‘Hippie Clinic’ In San Francisco Inspired A Medical Philosophy

Carrie Feibel Fifty-one years ago in San Francisco, a small community clinic opened its doors. Its mission: to treat many of the young people who flocked to the city — who were often homeless, hungry and sick. The Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, now part of a larger network, still operates out of a s

A Roadmap to Improve Newborn Health in Bangladesh

ASM Shahabuddin, Rajat Das Gupta and Yameen Mazumder The newborn health programme in Bangladesh is considered in the region as a good example of evolution of a programme based on empirical evidence and scale up of the programme nationwide. Bangladesh is one of the few countries in South Asia which h

Environment , Food , Health / 12/13/2017
Living in the era of Superbugs: Curse and Remedy

Mohammad Aminul Islam & Muhammad Asaduzzaman Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the biggest threats to global health, food security and development for which the environment is recognised as an important actor. It is estimated that the annual AMR attributed death toll will reach 10 mill

Environment , Health / 12/06/2017
Antimicrobial resistance from environmental pollution among biggest emerging health threats, says UN Environment

Growing antimicrobial resistance linked to discharge of drugs and particular chemicals into the environment is one of the most worrying health threats today, according to new research from UN Environment that highlights emerging challenges and solutions in the environmental space. Human antibiotic u

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