This is the first of a series of reports on NDM-1 bacteria, bugs endowed with the ability to resist not only commonly used antibiotics but the last-resort IV antibiotics used only in hospitals. NDM-1 first emerged in New Delhi (and is, controversially, named after the city) and has since spread to over 35 countries, primarily [...]
I’ll be talking about my article on private interests in global health on NPR’s “To The Point” today, live at 11 am PT, 2 pm ET. Economist Daniel Altman and Center for Science in the Public Interest’s Bill Jeffrey will be joining, too. Check here for a station list or to listen now.
In this piece, I look at how major private industry–oil and gas companies, the fast-food industry, and Big Pharma–are transforming the global health agenda. In sum: it’s not good. The story is the product of about 6 months of research, supported by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute. Check it out here.
“How Private Companies [...]
Alex Perry, of TIME magazine, shadowed millionaire investor-turned-malaria activist Ray Chambers, the UN Special Envoy for malaria, as he attempted to blanket the continent of Africa with treated bednets, and then wrote this short book about it, which I reviewed for The Wall Street Journal. It was a difficult review to write, because while I [...]
In the end, I had to Skype in to this year’s World Conference of Science Journalists conference in Doha, Qatar, and deliver my presentation on the issue of drug trials in developing countries via YouTube video. (You can check it out here.) Here’s what the Guardian newspaper had to say about it. “Ethics left behind [...]
The Guardian called for the nationalization of the Western oil industry instead (and mentioned my book Crude in their argument). Check it out, below.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/jun/15/obama-bp-nationalise-oil
Obama: stop baying for BP blood. Nationalise oil instead
The US president’s scapegoating of BP is a distraction; the only way to clean up the oil industry is to put it [...]
An op-ed I wrote about a forbidden topic–the fact that many rural Africans do not want to sleep under the bednets we donate to them–appeared in this weekend’s Los Angeles Times. A prominent malariologist had this to say about it: “Excellent story – finally someone that dares to speak up. Mind you, your death sentence [...]
WHO reports this week that multi-drug resistant tuberculosis has reached unprecedented levels worldwide: one in four in some places! Meanwhile here in the US we’re in a snit over a few modest reforms for health insurers.
For Ms. Magazine. Which makes me, ahem, “Ms. Blogger.”
Ok, I know this video is already appearing everywhere but here it is, again. I’ve always found these quite moving, although I’m not sure if it is the fact of seeing so many peacocks and divas putting aside their egos to be filmed singing side-by-side chorus style or the sentiment that “we are the world.”
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