This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Deborah Birx, the United States global AIDS coordinator, said that problems with the supply chain that supports the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief signal a need for greater accountability of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Enthusiasm for long-acting reversible contraception, or LARC, methods, including implants and intrauterine devices, has grown dramatically among development and public health practitioners in recent years. Given their differential burden of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Visit an elementary school in Kentucky’s Jefferson County Public Schools and you may find students doing partner yoga poses. The activity, part of a massive study of a “whole-child” education…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2000 malaria killed 47 people per 100,000 of those at risk. In 2015, the most recent year for which figures are available, that had dropped to 19—a fall of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2015, United Nations member states agreed to make Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030 one of the Sustainable Development Goals. Why? Because without satisfactory health coverage for individuals, the well-being of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Flying Eye Hospital, currently parked on Moffett Field in Mountain View, is a mobile ophthalmological hospital, technological marvel, and surely one of the most extraordinary vehicles on the planet. It…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When it comes to cancers that primarily afflict women, breast cancer often gets top billing. But there’s a host of malignancies collectively known as gynecological cancers — ovarian, cervical, endometrial,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Governments and funders have long made a habit of failing to deliver primary health care to the people who would get the most from it. In 1978, world public-health leaders…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Jordan has a long history of being a place of refuge, and there are many Palestinians here who are or were refugees. Indeed a high proportion of the Jordanian population…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As asthma rates rise in the United States, researchers and policymakers are looking at the impact housing quality has on adverse health outcomes. A new healthy homes module released with…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The first-ever comprehensive effort to characterize acute myeloid leukemia in children and young adults found key differences between the molecular signatures of the disease in these young patients and the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Early-stage breast cancer patients dealing with painful side effects from powerful estrogen-squelching drugs known as aromatase inhibitors got good news today from a team of researchers who led a large…