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Fuente: The New York Times Preliminary results from the trial of a malaria vaccine show that it protected nearly half of the children who received it from bouts of serious malaria, scientists said Tuesday.

Fuente: The Guardian As the malaria vaccine continues to prove sceptics wrong, the next obstacle for the World Health Organisation is cost

Fuente: NPR Scientists in Australia are using a bacterium to try to stop a deadly virus in its tracks.

Fuente: Goni, Edwin; Lopez, J. Humberto; Serven, Luis income inequality in Latin America ranks among the highest in the world. It can be traced back to the unequal distribution of assets (especially land and education) in the region. But the extent to which asset inequality translates into income…

Fuente: NPR Seven decades after public health officials thought they'd eradicated dengue fever, the disease has once again become a scourge in Florida. More than 90 cases have been reported there since 2009. The stakes are high: The same mosquito that carries dengue is also a vector for yellow…

Fuente: London Health Observatory To support Primary Care Trusts and local authorities, the Association of Public Health Observatories and Department of Health have developed the Health Inequalities Intervention Toolkit. This is designed to assist evidence-based local service planning and…

Fuente: RBF Interview with Amanda Glassman on Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs)

Fuente: The New York Times On Monday, in a Manhattan town house that once belonged to polio's most famous victim, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bill Gates made an appeal for one more big push to wipe out world polio

Fuente: Health Affairs Health Affairs. December 2010 - Volume 29, Number 12