Combating ‘Neglected’ Diseases Using Nature’s Apothecary Graham Jones and Roman Manetsch Science & Medicine Indonesian schoolchildren show off the mark indicating they’ve just taken anti-filariasis medication, a drug that prevents just one of the world’s ‘neglected’ diseases. The 2015 Nobel Prize for...
A New England Town Sprays Its Elm Trees with DDT Charles F. Wurster Society & Culture Hippo Reads is proud to be working with Oxford University Press to highlight unmissable excerpts from recent and upcoming titles. Today’s post is reprinted from DDT Wars: Rescuing Our National Bird...
Ebola’s Predecessors: What These Five Epidemics Can Teach Us Mark Wien Medicine, Science, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture Media portrayals of Ebola paint a stark picture—hazmat suits, mass graves, evacuations. But what do past worldwide epidemics have to teach us? Medical student Mark Wien examines epidemiology’s history lessons.
