A new study has raised questions about the benefits of a long-established health strategy pushed to improve child welfare in…
Among the insights, many of them disturbing, that the world learned from the massive Ebola outbreak in West Africa is…
A new treatment against malaria packs a big time double-whammy. Tests in mice show it can both kill the parasite and…
There’s plenty of moral and rhetorical support for fighting diseases of poverty, but if you look at global health spending…
By Robert Fortner, special to Humanosphere For this year’s World Malaria Day, April 25, the big news is mostly bad…
By Katie Leach-Kemon and Nancy Fullman, special to Humanosphere The benefits of breastfeeding to the health and development of newborn…
As the Disneyland measles outbreak in the United States demonstrated – if not the two-to-three million child deaths from easily…
By Amy VanderZanden, special to Humanosphere In the United States, when we think about fire, we might imagine a campfire…
Many governments are trying to make it harder for the tobacco industry to do business in their countries. Some are…
By Amy VanderZanden, special to Humanosphere With wars taking place in several regions of the world right now, and regular…