PATH BlogThis week’s global health and development news brings us a new acronym: BRIC, which stands for Brazil, Russia, India, and China. We also learn most of the world’s poor don’t live in “poor” countries, and which human disease is most … Continue reading
Editor’s note: this post was modified on August 29, 2012. Here’s our survey of the week’s global health and development news: UN calls for drought policies emphasizing more conservation, less consumption The Washington Post, August 21, 2012 The world urgently … Continue reading
As we canvassed news in global health and development this week, we found some reasons for optimism: advances in some medical devices, a different way to collaborate in research, and—potentially—a new use for an old vaccine. Crowdsourcing reveals lifesaving potential … Continue reading
This may come as a surprise to those of us used to the whoosh-and-go world of the flush toilet, but getting rid of poop is not easy. “It is complicated,” says Rory Hadden, a postdoctoral student at the University of … Continue reading
Today we begin a new feature: a selective scan of global health news and opinion with an eye toward stories you may have missed. This week find out about growing success in getting vaccines to the most isolated countries in … Continue reading
In London tomorrow, the British government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are hosting an international family planning summit with an ambitious goal: to give 120 million women in developing countries who have unmet needs for contraceptives access to … Continue reading
Abi Weaver is policy communications officer for PATH’s Advocacy and Public Policy department. If you’ve been following our blog, you know that PATH is busy driving forward dozens of groundbreaking projects. You also know that most of these projects start … Continue reading
It’s the BIRTHweigh™ scale that really gets the seventh graders from Salmon Bay School excited. Maybe it’s the three baby dolls PATH staff member Emily Griswold has lined up to demonstrate the device, which helps attendants at births outside of … Continue reading
In Tuesday’s global health quiz, we asked what a phase-change material is and what it’s got to do with vaccines. A phase change takes place when a solid, liquid, or gas changes from one state to another without a change … Continue reading
This is the story of a Seattle romance. Just south of downtown, a creative outdoor products company known for its sleeping pads, stoves, water treatment systems, and some pretty cool plastic snowshoes was seeking more uses for its extremely durable … Continue reading
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