New York Times: Scientists With Links to China May Be Stealing Biomedical Research, U.S. Says “…The NIH and the FBI have begun a vast effort to root out scientists who they say are stealing biomedical research for other countries from institutions across the United States. Almost all of the incidents…

TAG: 2019 Pipeline Report This “annual review provides an overview of research and development of innovations for diagnosing, preventing, treating, and curing HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV), and tuberculosis (TB),” according to the TAG website. Various updates on the diseases are available for download (Multiple authors, 11/4).

New York Times: Measles Can Cause ‘Immune Amnesia,’ Increasing Risk of Other Infections “Measles is far more dangerous than most people realize, new research shows. The disease itself can cause a severe and sometimes deadly illness, but two new studies published on Thursday found that even when patients recover, the…

The Guardian: Death toll in Yemen war reaches 100,000 (Beaumont, 10/31). Reuters: Record 45 million people in southern Africa facing food crisis: U.N. agencies (Roelf, 10/31). Science: Gates and NIH join forces on HIV and sickle cell diseases (Cohen/Kaiser, 11/1).

Scientific American: How Human Innovation Shapes Global Health Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and member of the judging panel for the Recognizing Excellence Around Champions of Health (REACH) Awards “…In health, innovation is so much more than the discovery or launching of new…

Bloomberg: Scientists Race to Stop the World’s Fastest Spreading Tropical Disease “About 40% of humanity is at risk of contracting dengue fever. In episode two of Bloomberg’s Moonshot, meet the scientists trying to eradicate it…” (Snyder, 10/30). Outbreak News Today: Philippines dengue outbreak continues rise, 360K cases to date “In…

CIDRAP News: TB vaccine candidate shows sustained protection “In a promising development that seems to put the world a step closer to a better vaccine against tuberculosis (TB), researchers [Tuesday] published final results from a phase 2b trial, which showed nearly 50% protection against progression to active TB. The findings…

Vox: A crucial federal program tracking dangerous diseases is shutting down “…Ever since the 2005 H5N1 bird flu scare, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has run a project to track and research these diseases, called Predict. At a cost of $207 million during its existence, the program has…

Associated Press: Vaccine shows promise for preventing active TB disease “An experimental vaccine proved 50% effective at preventing latent tuberculosis infection from turning into active disease in a three-year study of adults in Africa. … Results were reported Tuesday at a conference in India, the country hardest hit by TB,…

Associated Press: Haiti president requests US humanitarian aid amid protests (10/28). Borgen Magazine: Antimalarial Drug Resistance in Southeast Asia (Myers, 10/28). Borgen Magazine: Addressing Food Insecurity in Rwanda (Olk, 10/28). Devex: How did the EU spend on nutrition in 2018? (De Vos, 10/28). Devex: Q&A: SDG Impact director on driving…