How Bangladesh’s Child Deaths Dropped 80%

(Part of Dr. Atul Gawande’s “Slow Ideas” from The New Yorker on July 29, 2013.)






In 1968, The Lancet published the
results of a modest trial of what is now regarded as among the most important
medical advances of the twentieth century. It wasn’t a new drug or vaccine or
operation. It was basically a solution of sugar, salt, and water that you could
make in your kitchen. The researchers