Rotavirus is a diarrheal disease that kills half a million children worldwide every year. Current vaccines do not reach all the children early

Here’s a short update on the arsenic problem in Bangladesh, and how the SONO filter alleviates the problem (click the title above to view the

PBS NewsHour‘s Ray Suarez talks with Haitian President Rene Preval about the recovery the country still faces, six months after a devastating

PBS‘s Spencer Michels reports on the story of how a California social entrepreneur sees the chance to increase access to clean water in Kenya

2009 has been a good year for open access; for details, see my December 11, 2009 Dramatic Growth of Open Access. Happy

Image via Wikipedia Last Friday’s edition of NOW on PBS asks, “Is a coastal catastrophe approaching, and what should we be doing about

I got this letter from my state legislator last week. Posted without comment. Dear Mr. Xxxxxxxxx: California’s lack of water could result in more

Congratulations to Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States of America, who has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2009 “for his

Good news are a good place to blog. First of all, winning the Astellas USA award for doing work that has an impact on global health we have written

Once again, Muhammad Yunus tells it like it is. See the abstract of his talk at the National Press Club the same day:

This isn’t necessarily a chemistry-related subject, but irony abounds, as the band I am in started working on the song ‘Wild

I thought this was well said: …But what the bloc’s members seem to keep forgetting, he said, is that “the Stone Age didn’t