Gates Foundation Awards Grants to 104 Research Organizations

On Wednesday, October 22, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced the 104 groups of scientists that won funding in Round 1 of the Grand Challenges Explorations.  Winners came from from 22 countries and five continents and received $100,000 to research their innovating medical ideas. 
Some of the winners include:

Pattamaporn Kittayapong of Mahidol University in Thailand [...]

Federal Panel Recommends Vaccine Aimed at Smokers

The Washington Post is reporting that the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, an influential government panel, has recommended that smokers get the pneumoccal vaccine.   The pneumoccal vaccine, already recommended for people 65 years of age or older,  is supposed to prevent pneumonia, meningitis and other illnesses.  The vaccine is given as a one-time dose and is [...]

Scholar’s Corner: Recent Scholarly Works in Global Health Law

The Synergy of Toxic Tort Law and Public Health: Lessons from a Century of Cigarettes

Jean M. Eggen
Widener University – Delaware Campus

Connecticut Law Review, Forthcoming
Widener Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-79

Abstract:     
Toxic torts is a relatively new area of the law, but its seeds were sown a century ago with [...]