The 80-cent plastic sheet that tells a midwife when to panic
Midwives used to estimate blood loss by eye. A plastic sheet with lines on it, now made in Kano, replaced the guess with a number, and the deaths fell. Dawson Briggs Wilder on medicine’s cheapest big win.
A British health worker caught Ebola helping Congo. The flight home says something about medicine
Inside the Royal Free’s sealed isolation tent, a clinician who went to Ituri is being treated for a virus with no vaccine. Dawson Briggs Wilder on the medevac and the 10,000-case epidemic behind it.