Foreign Policy in Focus: Bad Bugs: How the White House Is Stoking a World Public Health Crisis Conn Hallinan, columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus, discusses how the Trump administration’s policies could threaten global public health, writing, “[T]he thing that should … keep people up at night is Washington’s approach…

CIDRAP News: Novartis drops antibiotic development program “Antibiotic development efforts were dealt a blow [Tuesday] when drug maker Novartis AG announced its decision to drop its antibacterial and antiviral research programs. The decision means Novartis will no longer be working on several antimicrobial projects currently in development. … Before the…

Washington Times: Worse than AIDS: Opioid epidemic is public health crisis CDC director fears most “…Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, … has settled in at the CDC’s Atlanta headquarters after spending much of his career in Washington and suburban Maryland. He is stepping into…

SciDev.Net: Global science body promises to reach poor regions (Tatalović, 7/6). STAT: A case study in the fast-rising threat of antibiotic resistance (Branswell, 7/6). Xinhua News: More than 1,000 Filipinos infected with leptospirosis this year: health secretary (7/7). Xinhua News: Kenya pledges new investments to eradicate micro-nutrients deficiency (7/6).

Canadian Press/The Star: ‘Hell’ of fighting drug-resistant tuberculosis cause some patients to abandon treatment (Sagan/Kane, 6/29). Global Press Journal: In DRC, Married Women Receive Preferential Access to Birth Control (Mutombo, 6/25). Newsweek: Remote Amazon Yanomami Tribe Threatened by Measles Outbreak (Spear, 7/5). NPR: VIDEO: Are We Headed Toward A Post-Antibiotic…

Forbes: Drug Development For Neglected Diseases Has Stagnated Joshua Cohen, independent health care analyst “There’s good news on neglected diseases. Donors of diagnostics and medications … are fulfilling the obligations laid out in the 2012 London Declaration. … But elsewhere progress has been limited. … Partly as a result of…

Washington Post: The malaria fight stalls as children die by the hundreds of thousands Editorial Board “For years, global public health officials have been at war with malaria … The number of cases and deaths has steadily dropped for a decade and a half. … But the battle shows signs…

CIDRAP News: World Economic Forum seeks ‘pull’ incentives for new antibiotics “In a new report, the World Economic Forum (WEF) throws its weight behind the push for ‘pull’ incentives for the development of new antibiotics, which aim to ensure that drugs that reach the market will be profitable. The WEF…

PLOS Blogs’ “Global Health”: Antimicrobials & international law: Join the resistance! Susan Rogers Van Katwyk, managing research fellow of the Global Strategy Lab, and Steven J. Hoffman, director of the Global Strategy Lab, a professor in the faculty of health, political science, and Osgoode Hall Law School at York University,…

The BMJ Opinion: Kanchan Mukherjee: Bedaquiline for multidrug resistant TB in India — at what cost? Kanchan Mukherjee, a medical doctor and professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, discusses the potential benefits and challenges of a wider government rollout of bedaquiline to treat multidrug-resistant TB in…