Humanosphere

• Feed the World: Bugs

  

  Jokes naturally followed the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation’s new report extolling the virtues of eating bugs. The most popular tweet was a variant on “Let them eat cake.” Others pointed to the scene in the Disney movie the Lion King where … Read More

• Gates-backed vaccine alliance targets cervical cancer in poor countries - for a price
• The never-ending threat of pandemic flu

view all Health posts

• Online mapping of drug-resistant malaria

  Thanks to SciDev for pointing out this fascinating tool, the IR mapper for tracking drug resistance in malaria parasites worldwide: An online mapping system to track insecticide resistance in malaria-causing mosquitoes around the world has been launched.  The free interactive … Read More

• Another experimental AIDS vaccine fails, but that's progess in science
• FDA developing a fake drug detector to test first on malaria meds

view all Science posts

• Ten disease burden stories from around the globe

  

  Flickr, Oliver Erdmann When Bill Gates and a gang of Seattle number-crunchers this week revealed the latest phase of the new Global Burden of Disease report – a massive survey of death and disability – news organizations focused on how … Read More

• Visualize Global Health
• The burden of a new global health agenda

view all Global Burden of Disease posts