Kristen Bell: We’re So Close To Ending Polio

When Kristen Bell found out that polio is still an issue for young children around the world, she knew she had to get involved. “It’s a viral disease and it mos...

FIGO Calls For Treatment Developed At Wayne State To Fight Worldwide Preterm Birth.

Recommendations to reduce the rates of preterm birth developed at the Wayne State University School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health’s Perinatology R...

Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone Is Now a Thriving Wildlife Habitat

Timothy Mousseau, a biologist at the University of South Carolina, and his colleagues found that some birds were adapting to the radioactive environment by producing higher...

Kindle Litfestx Announces National-International Authors Line-Up

Kindle LitFestX announces national-international authors line-up

Mumbai, October 8, 2015: Leapvault, a knowledge media firm that i...

Mipcom: TV World Embraces Content Revolution

CANNES – With the advent of Netflix, Amazon and TV anywhere, the walls protecting an established TV world are falling down. 2015’s 31st Mipcom, which ran Oct. 5...

Gender Equality And The Global Goals

Just over a week ago at the United Nations (UN), one hundred ninety-three countries adopted a new sustainable development agenda to tackle some of the world’s most pr...

Investing In Health Workforces: The Path Towards The Sdgs Starts Here

Last month marked a transition from one era of global health and development to the next. Seventeen Sustainable Development Goals were agreed by 193 heads of...

Is This The Beginning Of The End Of Coral?

In 1998, an unusually sweltering El Ni?o did more than just break temperature records around the world?it heated up the oceans enough to spur what scientists came to call t...

How Do We Keep Girls In School?

Following the World Development Report (2012), we discuss policies that can change the price of schooling under three categories: (i) direct costs; (ii) indirect costs; and...