STAT: A proposal would limit prices on meds developed with Defense Department dollars “A U.S. senator is trying to lower prices for medicines that are discovered with taxpayer dollars, and his effort amounts to a new twist to unraveling a complicated controversy that has embroiled the U.S. Department of Defense,…

Huffington Post: Lack of family planning casts a shadow over the future for millions of women and girls on the move Flavia Bustreo, assistant director general for family, women’s and children’s health at the WHO, and vice chair of the Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance “…Research into the effectiveness…

Mother Jones: Super Gonorrhea Is About to Get the Trump Bump “The overuse of certain antibiotics has dulled their ability to fight infections, leading to such maladies as untreatable ‘super gonorrhea.’ When world leaders gathered in Germany for the first-ever G20 Health Ministers meeting in May, they called for a…

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Impatient Optimists”: Innovation: Building New Infrastructure to Fight Neglected Diseases Trevor Mundel, president of global health at the Gates Foundation, discusses how scientists are advancing knowledge of the parasite Cryptosporidium, one of the leading causes of diarrhea among children. Mundel highlights the work of Boris…

New York Times: Why Trump’s NIH Cuts Should Worry Us Harold Varmus, professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, former director of NIH and the National Cancer Institute “…[I]t would be a mistake to be complacent about the president’s proposal [to cut the NIH budget by about $5.8 billion], because it is…

Intellectual Property Watch: 17 Civil Society Groups Urge E.U. To Support WHO Resolution On Cancer “A range of civil society organizations [Thursday] issued a letter to European Union leadership urging support for a World Health Organization resolution that mandates a feasibility study on a fund for cancer research and development…

New York Times: Letter to the Editor: Fighting Deadly Diseases David S. Perlin, executive director at the Public Health Research Institute at Rutgers “Combating infectious diseases … demands our attention as a prominent threat to American health and security. … Our own medical backyard is a proving ground for deadly…

Brookings Institution: Figure of the week: Findings from the Brookings Health Governance Capacity report Amy Copley, research analyst and project coordinator for the Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution, discusses findings from a new Brookings report on health governance capacity and enhancing private sector investment in global health to strengthen…

Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: CUGH 2017: The lessons of global health come home in Fogarty fellow stories, questions, plans Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer of “Science Speaks,” discusses presentations made by several research fellows from the NIH’s Fogarty International Center at the 2017 Consortium of Universities…

Financial Times: FT Health: Vaccines “Vaccine research grows vigorously, propelled by rising world demand to fight existing diseases and to guard against new threats. Ebola and Zika have recently caused huge international alarm. Yet the Trump era may give voice to increased vaccine skepticism…” This special report includes eight articles on…