From disease eradication efforts to advances in vaccination and maternal health, this archive tracks real progress in public health. Stories here focus on what’s working — policies, interventions, and research that are improving and extending lives around the world.
The Phase 1/2 trial data from Janssen Research & Development covered hundreds of myeloma patients. Based on preliminary trial data, the FDA has granted it “Breakthrough Therapy” designation.
The machine dispensed more than 3,000 doses of naloxone and 10,000 drug test strips in the first year after it was installed in February 2021.
According to health experts, Bangladesh has achieved unprecedented success in every health index in the last 50 years since independence, including infant and maternal mortality rates.
Glioblastoma patients now have the most promising new treatment in nearly three decades, after a personalised vaccine more than doubled five-year survival rates in a large international trial. The vaccine works by extracting proteins from a patient’s own tumour and combining them with their white blood cells, training the immune system to recognise and destroy the cancer — with benefits seen even among those traditionally considered hardest to treat. If regulators approve it, this could signal a new era of personalised immunotherapy for cancers that have long resisted every available option.
The country’s maternal mortality ratio (MMR) witnessed a decline by 6 points at 97 per lakh live births in 2018-2020, from 130 in 2014-16.
The federal carbon price floor was a charge of CAN$40 per ton on carbon emissions in 2021, and this fee will rise to CAN$170 per ton by 2030.
Gennaris, a bionic vision system from Monash University, could open a path to sight for people whose blindness stems from optic nerve damage — a group that most existing visual aids simply cannot help. The device bypasses the eye entirely, sending signals from a camera headset directly to tiles implanted in the brain, which then create perceivable points of light. Sheep trials confirmed the implants are safe and stable in brain tissue, and human trials are now being planned. If it succeeds, the underlying technology could eventually be adapted to assist people living with paralysis too.
In a 7-5 vote, council members approved legislation to create a partnership between the city and a nonprofit group called RIP Medical Debt to relieve debt for eligible Toledo residents.
According to a recent study for estimating the prevalence of blindness and visual impairment in the Indian population, more than one fourth of people in India aged 50 years and above are visually impaired.
Demand for blood donations currently far outstrips supply and matching blood types is an extra hassle that often results in patients missing out even as donated blood goes to waste.
