by annaread | Oct 31, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Malaria is back in parts of Perú. Read about probable causes. Repression of human rights and rampant infectious disease go together in Burma. See UC Berkeley’s report. In science this week, a discovery that having blood type “O” tends to...
by sjs | Oct 29, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The Council of Science Editors organized a “Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development” on October 22, 2007, with the aim of both encouraging reseach on poverty and human development and disseminating that research to the broadest possible...
by annaread | Oct 25, 2007 | Evangelization, News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
On its first anniversary, Cincinnati’s St. Vincent de Paul free pharmacy sees requests for help with prescription drugs increasing by 20% each month. Read the story.
by annaread | Oct 25, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The October 20, 2007 edition of the newspaper of the Archdiocese of New Orleans reports on “Operation Giving Back”, a project of the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress. A former school is being remodeled as a neighborhood health clinic to be...
by annaread | Oct 24, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Peter Agre MD, who shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry, will become director of the Malaria Research Institute at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He told the Baltimore Sun that malaria has long fascinated him because it is so deadly and so...
