Tom Paulson
Humanosphere BloggerThe host of the Humanosphere community is Tom Paulson, who spent 22 years reporting on science and medicine at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Tom was one of the first daily news reporters to cover the topic of “global health” (a much-debated label which he discusses the merits of on the Humanosphere website).
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Amid all the dire reports that seem to indicate the world is going to heck in a handbasket, here’s some good news:The United Nations children’s agency,…
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While the battle over drugs in the murder capital of the world intensifies and the U.S. president sends in VP Joe Biden, one Seattle expert worries the…
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation officially calls it the Grand Challenges Exploration program and it was initially launched to fund unorthodox — some…
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There are many neglected diseases out there but not many as prevalent or as ravaging as visceral leishmaniasis, also known as black fever or kala azar —…
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What do a Seattle-based global real estate firm, trees and Tony Blair have in common with fighting poverty and inequity worldwide? They’re all a part of a…
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To mark the start of the Tibetan New Year, Losar, some of Seattle’s Tibetan community demonstrated downtown against China with colorful flags, angry…
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Seems silly to talk about weaponized chickens, but that’s exactly the kind of talk world leaders have become afraid of.The latest debate raging among…
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Remember when the CIA did that fake vaccination scheme in Pakistan, the one that many predicted (correctly) would undermine confidence in American health…
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The scientific community is in serious kerfuffle right now about whether or not to publish the details of certain bird flu virus experiments.Angry words…
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A new global estimate of malaria deaths by researchers in Seattle has revealed the death toll is much greater than most experts had thought — and is not,…