When Superbugs Attack
Antibiotic-resistant NDM-1 Is Undermining India's Medical Sector March 28, 2012 Sonia Shah Summary: The discovery in Delhi of a particularly nasty form of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, against which...
View ArticleIndia's Broken Promise
How a Would-Be Great Power Hobbles Itself April 20, 2012 Basharat Peer Indian elites are cheering their country’s newfound status and influence. But two recent books reveal the ugly underbelly of...
View ArticleDangerous Doses
Fighting Fraud in the Global Medicine Supply Chain May 14, 2012 Tim K. Mackey, Bryan A. Liang, and Thomas T. Kubic Summary: As much as 15 percent of the medicine in circulation around the world is...
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Helping the Bottom Billion is Good -- and Good Business May 21, 2012 Robert Jenkins and Anthony Lake Summary: UNICEF officials explain why development approaches that emphasize equality are also the...
View ArticleHealthy Governance
How the WHO Can Regain Its Relevance May 24, 2012 By Devi Sridhar, Lawrence O. Gostin, and Derek Yach Summary: For decades, the WHO has debated whether to address specific diseases or to broadly...
View ArticleObamacare and the Court
Handing Health Policy Back to the People July 16, 2012 Barry Friedman Summary: Pundits predicted that the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act would make history. In fact, by...
View ArticleAmerica's Misguided Approach to Social Welfare
How the Country Could Get More for Less December 3, 2012 Kimberly J. Morgan Summary: The amount of resources the American public and private sectors commit to all forms of welfare is massive -- the...
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The Case for Land Reform in India February 19, 2013 Tim Hanstad Summary: Rooting out poverty is difficult. In the case of India, however, addressing landlessness has already improved the lives of...
View ArticleUnhealthy Practice
Medical Work in Conflict Zones Is Compromised April 24, 2013 Leonard S. Rubenstein Summary: For the second time in less than six months, polio vaccine workers in Pakistan have come under fire. For the...
View ArticleWho Owns MERS?
The Intellectual Property Controversy Surrounding the Latest Pandemic June 7, 2013 David P. Fidler Summary: The outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome has led to a global controversy over...
View ArticleIndia's Polio Win
One Step Closer To Eliminating The Virus March 28, 2012 Kathleen Sebelius Summary: Twenty years ago, there were more than 100 polio-endemic countries; now, with India having eradicated the bug, only...
View ArticleWhen Superbugs Attack
Antibiotic-resistant NDM-1 Is Undermining India's Medical Sector March 28, 2012 Sonia Shah Summary: The discovery in Delhi of a particularly nasty form of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, against which...
View ArticleIndia's Polio Win
One Step Closer To Eliminating The Virus March 28, 2012 Kathleen Sebelius Summary: Twenty years ago, there were more than 100 polio-endemic countries; now, with India having eradicated the bug, only...
View ArticleWhen Superbugs Attack
Antibiotic-resistant NDM-1 Is Undermining India's Medical Sector March 28, 2012 Sonia Shah Summary: The discovery in Delhi of a particularly nasty form of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, against which...
View ArticleIndia's Polio Win
One Step Closer To Eliminating The Virus March 28, 2012 Kathleen Sebelius Summary: Twenty years ago, there were more than 100 polio-endemic countries; now, with India having eradicated the bug, only...
View ArticleA Cure for Africa's Common Cold
Why Malaria Persists October 24, 2013 Sonia Shah Summary: The main challenge to eradicating malaria is a lack of will to do the job -- and not among donor countries. Despite its tremendous burden on...
View ArticleHealthcare.gov Didn't Have to Be a Disaster
Here's How to Fix It -- And Avoid Failure in the Future November 11, 2013 Peter L. Levin and Shahid N. Shah Summary: Assigning blame for Healthcare.gov’s disastrous rollout has been about as...
View ArticleAmerica's Social Democratic Future
The Arc of Policy Is Long But Bends Toward Justice December 16, 2013 Lane Kenworthy Summary: Obamacare’s success will not mean a leap to socialism, nor would its failure mean the end of liberalism....
View ArticleSmart Development
How Colombia, Mexico, and Singapore Beat the BRICS February 5, 2014 Eduardo J. Gómez Summary: By some measures, the BRICS have squandered their years of plenty. Even as they poured money into building...
View ArticleFailure to Launch
How Obama Fumbled HealthCare.gov February 12, 2014 Jonathan Alter Summary: Whether the Obama administration’s bungled rollout of HealthCare.gov will permanently tarnish the administration’s legacy is...
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