Last December at the AGU, I heard a presentation of a ground-breaking and troubling study on climate change and public health in the Philippines. Two young researchers charted typhoons and their aftermath, and argued powerfully that our reporting of the damage caused by these powerful but brief storms (one of which landed near Manila in August)Continue reading “Climate change + health in Philippines: Charlotte Kellogg”
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Multi, Extremely, and Totally Drug-Resistant TB: TDR-TB
Sometimes change is easier to hear in language than it is to contextualize in reality. My meager understanding of tuberculosis cannot be expected to grade the seriousness of the news that several new strains of the disease have been found in populations in India and Iran. This sounds alarming, but after all, medical researchers haveContinue reading “Multi, Extremely, and Totally Drug-Resistant TB: TDR-TB”
Kit Stolz 