by Chris Tachibana | Mar 1, 2018 | ScienceWire
From Nepal, Joanne Silberner has been reporting on burns and burn care. Her latest story in Public Radio International focuses on bride burning—a particularly horrifying way to punish women. Joanne talks to a woman who is resolved to move away from the husband who...
by Chris Tachibana | Oct 2, 2016 | ScienceWire
New articles by Wayt Gibbs for Scientific American take a global perspective. Read about using real-time ship-tracking sites to spot illegal fishing around the world and find out what Bill Gates thinks about data and global health. Subscribers can get the origin story...
by Chris Tachibana | Sep 1, 2016 | ScienceWire
In the New Yorker, Wudan Yan has a piece about travel—not of people but of our intestinal bacteria. Wudan profiles biologists following microbes around Fiji and reports surprising findings about the genes bacteria http://www.laviagraes.com/tipos-de-viagra-naturales...
by Ashley Braun | Mar 23, 2016 | Past Events
The Zika virus has been around since the 1950s, but it’s only in the last year that mosquito-borne disease has been making global headlines. Zika has been linked with microcephaly (unusually under-sized heads and damaged brains), Guillain-Barré disease, and...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2015 | ScienceWire
Sandra Ripley Distelhorst has a first-author Lancet Oncology paper on optimizing breast cancer care in low- and middle-income countries. The comprehensive summary lays out the latest recommendations from the Breast Health Global Initiative, co-sponsored by Fred...
