CIDRAP News: DRC reports second Ebola case from urban hub (Schnirring, 9/10). Global Health NOW: The Lessons of Alma-Ata (Simpson, 9/9). The Guardian: Polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea reaches capital Port Moresby (Lyons, 9/10). The Guardian: Spanish flu: the killer that still stalks us, 100 years on (Honigsbaum, 9/9).…

FT Health: Quality not quantity The latest issue of the Financial Times’ weekly global health newsletter discusses findings from the Lancet Global Health Commission on High-Quality Care, highlighting an accompanying report and podcast. The issue also features an interview with Ekaterina Malievskaia, chief medical officer and co-founder of Compass Pathways,…

U.N. News: 800,000 people commit suicide every year: WHO “Every year, close to 800,000 people commit suicide, the second leading cause of death amongst people aged 15-29 in 2016. Ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day on Monday 10 September, a toolkit to help communities to prevent suicides has been released…

Al Jazeera: Traditional Rohingya midwives helping pregnant refugees (Jamjoom, 9/6). The BMJ: Death certificates should record antimicrobial resistance as cause of deaths, says CMO (O’Dowd, 9/6). The Economist: How a shampoo bottle is saving young lives (9/6). Forbes: HPV Vaccine May Reduce Risk Of Transmitting Devastating Throat Disease To Children…

Al Jazeera: ‘Rat fever’ threatens thousands after Indian state’s worst floods (Saberin, 9/3). CIDRAP News: DRC: More confirmed Ebola cases in Beni, Mabalako (Soucheray, 9/4). Deutsche Welle: Wars killed 5 million African children over 20 years, says study (8/31). Devex: What you need to know from Stockholm World Water Week…

BBC News: Lack of exercise puts one in four people at risk, WHO says “…A WHO report estimates that more than a quarter of [adults] worldwide — 1.4 billion — are not doing enough physical exercise, a figure that has barely improved since 2001…” (Therrien, 9/5). CNN: ‘Pandemic’ of inactivity…

The Conversation: Rising suicides in Mexico expose the mental health toll of living with extreme, chronic violence Cecilia Farfán-Méndez, postdoctoral scholar at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego “…[N]ew data from the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua reveals the dangerous mental health toll of…

International Business Times: Malaria scare grips Delhi: 75 cases reported so far outpacing dengue and chikungunya (Rai, 7/24). Nature: Malaria’s ticking time bomb (Maxmen, 7/25). Reuters: Medical aid group MSF suspends work in part of S.Sudan after office overrun (Dumo/Obulutsa, 7/24). VOA News: U.N. Launches $22M Appeal to Tackle Ethiopian…

CNN: Bill Gates jump-starts research for an affordable Alzheimer’s test “…Gates announced [Tuesday] that he has joined a coalition of philanthropists who are investing $30 million to create a venture fund called Diagnostics Accelerator. ‘We need a better way of diagnosing Alzheimer’s — like a simple blood test or eye…

IDSA’s “Science Speaks”: Reports add to findings of Ebola, Zika impacts Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer of “Science Speaks,” discusses two studies published online this week in the CDC’s Emerging Infectious Diseases journal. One study examined neurological damage among Zika-affected infants, and the other study looked at lasting neurological…