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).…

The Lancet: Pneumonia: a global cause without champions Kevin Watkins, CEO of Save the Children U.K., and Devi Sridhar, co-investigator on the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Respiratory Health at the University of Edinburgh “…Why has childhood pneumonia achieved such limited traction on the health agendas of governments and…

New York Times: China Has Withheld Samples of a Dangerous Flu Virus “For over a year, the Chinese government has withheld lab samples of a rapidly evolving influenza virus from the United States — specimens needed to develop vaccines and treatments, according to federal health officials. … Now, as the…

Wall Street Journal: New CDC Director Targets Opioids, Suicide and Pandemics “…[I]n his first interview in the role … [CDC Director] Robert Redfield [spoke] of the suicide rate, … [and] also touched on his goals for ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the U.S., improving immunization rates, and strengthening public health…

The Lancet Infectious Diseases: How to be ready for the next influenza pandemic Editorial Board “…[O]n the centenary of the 1918 [influenza] pandemic, it is timely to ask ourselves whether the world would be prepared now for such an event. The answer sadly is no: we do not know what…

Intellectual Property Watch: The Myth Behind Health And Trade Agreements — Q&A With Othoman Mellouk (6/18). News Deeply: Doctors Without Borders: Undernutrition Is a Community Health Issue (Green, 6/18). Newsweek: What is Disease X? Deadly bird flu virus could be next pandemic (Andrew, 6/15). NPR: As Carbon Dioxide Levels Rise,…

VOA News: Vaccines Make Major Dent in Child Deaths from Pneumonia, Meningitis “[Two childhood vaccines] have saved 1.45 million children’s lives this century, according to a new study. … The bacteria targeted by the shots, Haemophilus influenzae type b (known as Hib) and Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus), are major causes of…

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Impatient Optimists”: Great ideas from the next round of Grand Challenges Explorations Steven Buchsbaum, deputy director, and Rebekah Neal, program officer, both with the Discovery and Translational Sciences team in Global Health at the Gates Foundation, discuss the Grand Challenges Explorations initiative and “announce funding…

Washington Post: Think ‘globalists’ are villains? Look at the Ebola outbreak. Michael Gerson, syndicated columnist “…When it comes to health, the world has become a single, massive body. A serious infection arriving at the weakest part of the immune system — say, the health systems of West Africa — could…

Scientific American: A New Push for a Universal Flu Vaccine “If all goes according to plan, the annual flu shot protects about 60 percent of vaccinated people. This year’s inoculation, of course, fell far short of such expectations, safeguarding only one in four vaccinated people who encountered the dominant H3N2…