My new website, ResurgentMalaria.com, launched this week in advance of World Malaria Day on April 25. ResurgentMalaria.com explores the politics and history of malaria, one of humankind’s most fierce scourges. This is a disease we’ve known how to prevent and cure for over 100 years, but which still infects 500 million a year and kills [...]
Today’s Calcutta Telegraph carried a nice review/summary of The Body Hunters, published in India by Pearson. I’m thrilled that the Indian press is covering the book, since I did much of my reporting from India, where there is a real problem with unethical clinical trials. Check it out at: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080328/jsp/opinion/story_9059631.js
The Sepia Mutiny, a very witty blog run mostly by second-generation Indian Americans (like myself) posted a lovely piece about my involvement in CRUDE (the movie) and CRUDE (the book). I’d never read Sepia Mutiny before so took the opportunity to browse and laughed out loud several times. I doubt I’m hip enough to write [...]
Crude: The Movie!
A few years ago, a documentary fillmmaker from the ABC in Sydney (that’s the Australian public television network) spent a day with me in Boston, talking about oil politics. His film, which he dubbed “Crude” (after kindly discussing it with me), came out in Australia a few years ago, and won a slew [...]
In a couple weeks, I’m off to be a guest-in-residence at University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois. The program that invited me is called Unit One, an educational model established in the 1970s. Basically, some 650 students live, eat, and learn together within the confines of a single facility on campus called Allen Hall. And [...]
Well, kind of. The OHRP shot out an email responding to Gawande this week. They say that the “program” was actually a research study,the results of which were published in the NEJM. That is, the peoplewho impemented the intervention didn’t actually know whether it wouldwork or not. Maybe the patient would start seizing on the [...]
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