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Brazilian Researchers Say Schistosomiasis Vaccine Could Be Available In 3 Years

June 13, 2012 Morning Briefing

“Brazilian researchers say they have successfully tested a vaccine against schistosomiasis, a disease caused by parasitic worms that afflicts more than 200 million people worldwide,” Agence France-Presse reports. Researchers from the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro “said it had successfully tested the vaccine in humans, but that more testing would be required in areas where the parasite is most common, mainly in Africa and South America,” the news agency writes. Institute researcher Tania Araujo-Jorge said she hopes the vaccine will be available for distribution within three years, according to AFP (6/13).

China’s ‘One-Child Policy’ Delayed World’s Reaching Population Of 7 Billion; China To Maintain Policy

November 1, 2011 Morning Briefing

“The world’s population is expected to hit seven billion around October 31,” CNN’s Jaime FlorCruz reports in his column, “Jaime’s China.” This is a number that would have been reached five years earlier were it not for China’s family planning policy, according to Zhai Zhenwu, a professor at Renmin University School of Sociology and Population. FlorCruz writes that experts at the National Population and Family Planning Commission of China say “the policy has prevented more than 400 million births in the country.”

Santa Cruz, Calif., City Officials, Medical Marijuana Advocates Distribute Marijuana in Public Demonstration Outside City Hall

September 18, 2002 Morning Briefing