This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. World Health Organization officials have announced a new initiative to address the health impacts of climate change on small island developing states. The global health body called for a tripling of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The major global health crises of recent decades have, at times, felt insurmountable. The onset of the HIV epidemic in the late 1970s and the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every once in a while something special comes along that has the power to stop us in our tracks. The “Person-Centered Matters” video about people living with dementia and those…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Obesity and prostate cancer are two of the most common medical issues facing older men today. These health concerns are particularly prevalent among U.S. veterans. That is why Dr. Jonathan L.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Public-private partnerships are all the buzz in the African health sector, where financing is in short supply. Just four African countries have met domestic spending targets for the sector, and many see…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) hails today’s U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of a new, personalized cell therapy that supercharges the patient’s immune system to find and…
There are some commonly accepted ideas about what it means to be healthy. Healthy people eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. They don’t do drugs, and of course, they…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite recent mobilization of funding and targeted interventions by donors, nongovernmental organisations, and the private and public sectors between 2005 and 2015, much more needs to be done to end preventable child deaths by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Dr. Ruth Etzioni, a biostatistician in Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s Public Health Sciences Division, has received a five-year National Institutes of Health grant to advance the science of cancer…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Six years ago, Todd Hirai learned why all the physical therapy he’d received for his baseball injury hadn’t eased his back pain. He hadn’t wrenched his back in the batting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the past 20 years, tremendous progress has been made in global health. Diseases such as malaria, diarrheal illness, pneumonia, and measles have decreased worldwide, as have rates of maternal…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We know that learning begins at birth, and that healthy development greatly impacts children’s ability to learn: Children who are on track in their physical, social and emotional, cognitive, and…