Archives: Morning Breakouts

A high-level meeting of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) Committee on World Food Security

Research reveals gene sites linked to obesity. Meanwhile, obesity drugs falter as obesity costs continue to rise.

News outlets covered races in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Delaware.

American Public Media's "Marketplace" reports on the Asia Pacific Conference on Tobacco or Health, where experts from 41 countries discussed how the tobacco industry has "been been targeting developing countries more and more" (10/7).

Officials gathered in Washington, D.C. on Thursday to launch mWomen, an initiative aimed at increasing access to mobile phones to further health and development benefits among women in the developing countries, the Telegraph reports (Beaumont, 10/8).

Inter Press Service looks at the U.N. Human Rights Council's (HRC) endorsement of "water and sanitation as a basic human right" last week, and the "reality" that "water and sanitation have remained two of the most neglected sub-texts of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which came under scrutiny at the MDG summit" in September.

The Atlantic looks at the challenges facing the passage of I-VAWA (S.2982, HR. 4594), or the International Violence Against Women Act, which was recently delayed in Congress.

A new report published by the Results for Development Institute in the Lancet "has offered governments and donors a glimpse into the future of HIV epidemics

One hidden cost of obesity is lost productivity in the workplace - a problem with a price tag as high as $73.1 billion, according to a new study.