International treaty signed to combat growing counterfeit drug industry

According to a report by The Moscow Times, many European leaders have recently agreed to cooperate in the fight against counterfeit medicines: Convention to Combat Fake Medicine Signed (Moscow Times)  Russia, France, Germany and several other mostly European countries on Friday signed the first-ever international treaty to combat the growing multibillion-dollar counterfeit drugs industry. The [...]

GSK malaria vaccine could save millions of lives

The following report published in The Guardian today provides encouraging global health news — GSK’s new vaccine against malaria has been shown to halve the risk of malaria. Malaria vaccine could save millions of children’s lives Millions of small children’s lives could be saved by a new vaccine that has been shown to halve the [...]