Diseases and Cures

Medicaid expansion led to a 1.5% increase in survival of children with cancer. That means 200 more children alive two years after diagnosis.

Cholera cases are increasing around the world, and countries like Malawi, Syria, and Pakistan are seeing the worst of it amid a global vaccine shortage.

The virus has moved outside the bounds of its typical seasons, which coincide with birds’ spring and fall migrations.

After nearly 40 years of effort, Guinea worm disease is on the cusp of being the second human disease – after smallpox – to be eradicated on Earth.

A new study that reveals protein plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease are stickier than thought could lead to new therapies.

Many questions remain about next steps for US vaccine policy. But the FDA advisory panel’s hearty endorsement of a single-composition COVID-19 vaccine represents a pivotal step.

Current medical standards for accessing stroke risk perform worse for Black Americans than for white Americans, research finds.

The new bivalent boosters against COVID-19 have failed to halt omicron infections. However, new technologies are being developed that pave a way forward.

The US PEPFAR initiative has brought HIV medication to millions of people globally. Behind this progress are the activists that pressured politicians and companies to put patients over patents.

People are more willing to get a COVID-19 vaccination when they are told about how many other people in their community plan to get one.

Women in Sub-Saharan Africa who experience recent intimate partner violence are three times more likely to contract HIV, research finds.

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