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Published On January 15, 2009
TECHNOLOGY
Banishing Mosquitoes
A simple technology nets a decline in malaria incidence and deaths.
In July, the one-millionth “long-lasting insecticide-treated mosquito net” was distributed in southern Sudan. The nets, draped around sleeping areas, kill female anopheles mosquitoes, the prime carriers of malaria. By eliminating insects in one home, the nets can reduce the overall number of mosquitoes in an area, even in nearby homes without nets. Along with artemisinin-based combination therapies and the spraying of insecticide indoors, the nets have contributed to a 50% decline in malaria incidence and deaths in 29 nations during the past seven years.
Dispatches
Leave No Limb Behind The human costs of amputation are sky high. A wave of innovation is working to keep patients intact.
What Comes After Transvaginal Mesh? Prolapse of the pelvic organs is uncomfortable and widespread, and its treatments are sometimes dangerous. But new approaches are on the way.
Medicine and the Makers Roderic Pettigrew is training a new hybrid specialty—half physician, half engineer.
Podcast: Can AI Save Us from Despair? Psychiatry is finding its footing with machine intelligence. New tools may dramatically help those who need it the most.
Sins of the Past The California Death Certificate Project is finding the physicians associated with opioid overdoses. Is it justice or a witch hunt?
Prohibition at 100 The 18th Amendment launched the most sweeping health experiment in U.S. history. Physicians—then and now—have debated its complex legacy.
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