How private distribution companies can help reduce diarrheal disease
Everyone reading this article has suffered from diarrhea at some point, but did you know that it kills nearly 4,000 children a day? The World Health Organization estimates that diarrhea – simple,...
View ArticleOne point for crowdsourcing: Gamers solve protein structure of AIDS-like protein
Video A small group of enthusiastic gamers on a site called Foldit recently solved the structure of a protein found in an AIDS-like monkey virus. The structure had stumped scientists for over a decade;...
View ArticleCan text messages be used to improve health outcomes?
Video Imagine you are trying to quit smoking. In the process, you receive a text message saying, “This is it! - QUIT DAY, throw away all your fags . TODAY is the start of being QUIT forever, you can do...
View ArticleCan The Private Sector Drive Meaningful Social Progress? The Case of Global...
Video This Saturday afternoon, 100,000 Peruvian schoolchildren will collectively attempt to break a world record previously held by Bangladesh. In 25 regions of the country, in large cities and small...
View ArticleMaking vaccines cost-effective: Money is only part of the solution
Video Last Tuesday, researchers announced that an experimental malaria vaccine called RTS,S may help reduce the risk of malaria by half. The results – which are preliminary, as the researchers have...
View ArticleHow pharmaceutical companies can help take the 'neglected' out of neglected...
Video What do schistosomiasis, cysticercosis, and lymphatic filariasis have in common? Besides verging on the unpronounceable, they are all classified as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). NTDs are a...
View ArticleTop five ways Big Pharma can address neglected diseases
My last post discussed the reasons why neglected diseases have historically been neglected, the growing efforts to eradicate them, and why pharmaceutical companies should develop more drugs for them....
View ArticleUnited we stand: the new approach in fighting neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)
Video Yesterday was a huge day for the neglected tropical disease (NTD) community. A consortium of organizations – including 13 pharmaceutical companies, the US, UK, and UAE governments, the Bill &...
View ArticleThe Worst Health Risk You've Never Heard of (guest post by Jacob Moss)
VideoThis post is written by Jacob Moss, Director of the US Cookstoves Initiative in the Secretary of State’s Office of Global Partnerships at the US Department of State. For much of the developing...
View ArticleMAKERS: A digital platform showcases a nation transformed by women
How far has the modern American women’s movement come in the last fifty years? Dylan McGee, Betsy West, and Peter Kunhardt founded MAKERS.com to show the world the answer to this question. In...
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