The Guardian: From Ebola to Nipah: are we ready for the next epidemic? — Science Weekly podcast (Sample/Jackson, 7/13). The Lancet: Proposed regulation of oxytocin in India causes concern (Cousins, 7/14). The Lancet: Prospects for health in Mexico after the presidential election (Woodman, 7/14). Reuters: Prince Harry, Elton John to…

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Impatient Optimists”: India can reduce maternal deaths Jerker Liljestrand, senior program officer with the Gates Foundation’s Maternal, Newborn and Child Health team, and Nachiket Mor, director of the Gates Foundation’s India Country Office, highlight three methods to reduce maternal deaths due to bleeding after birth,…

U.N. News: Health conditions for citizens of Yemen’s key port city ‘remain critical’ says U.N. agency “Even before the escalation of conflict in Hudaydah, conditions in Yemen’s port city were some of ‘the most dire in the country,’ according to the United Nations health agency on Tuesday. The World Health…

Devex: Opinion: Ensuring the end of polio means new milestones for public health John Hewko, general secretary of Rotary International and the Rotary Foundation “…The Global Polio Eradication Initiative hopes to make polio the second disease ever eradicated … GPEI is taking lessons from the aftermath of the smallpox eradication…

Washington Post: If we really want to eradicate diseases such as Ebola, we need a new strategy Heidi Morefield, Ph.D. candidate in the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University “…[T]he turn toward high-tech solutions for distribution of vaccines has overshadowed the more pressing issue: the need to solve the…

FT Health: Thanksgiving or tough love for the U.K.’s NHS? The latest issue of the Financial Times’ weekly global health newsletter discusses the U.K.’s taxpayer-funded National Health Service (NHS) and features an interview with Chris Elias, president of the global development division at the Gates Foundation, in which he discusses…

U.N. News: Dangers of poor quality health care revealed ‘in all countries’: WHO report “Ineffective health care is a global phenomenon which increases the burden of illness and wastes scarce resources, U.N. experts said on Thursday. In a new report on the subject, the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners…

Global Health: Science and Practice: June 2018 This new issue of the online journal features pieces on various topics, including an editorial on lessons learned from the use of long-lasting insecticidal nets for malaria control programs in Myanmar and Nigeria; a commentary on improving global health programs through systematic program…

World Health Organization: Low quality health care is increasing the burden of illness and health costs globally “Poor quality health services are holding back progress on improving health in countries at all income levels, according to a new joint report by the OECD, World Health Organization (WHO), and the World…

Devex: Suffering in silence: The deadly economic burden of NCDs “…Noncommunicable diseases, including diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular, and chronic respiratory diseases, account for 41 million deaths globally each year according to the World Health Organization. Developing countries such as South Sudan, with limited access to health care and scarce resources, are…