As the number of cancer diagnoses soars globally, health experts in the Americas are challenged to provide adequate resources for cancer prevention and treatment among the populations least able to cope with its impact.
No one could have predicted that Ebola would dominate global health headlines in 2014. We sure didn’t. The virus was…
For this Humanosphere podcast, we are talking to James (aka Jamie) Love, director of an organization that works for social…
You already know the world is getting better. It is reason to be optimistic, but some new challenges will replace…
Guest post by Katie Leach-Kemon, a policy translation specialist from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.…
Daytime television host Katie Couric courted controversy where it does not exist, yesterday. She featured Emily Tarsell a woman who said the…
This awkward infographic comes to us from the Twitter feed of Bill Gates. Ther are some curious choices about the…
Guest post by Katie Leach-Kemon, a policy translation specialist from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Nurse,…
Silberner interviewing a doctor who treats breast cancer in Haiti. I’m sick with a cold, so I suppose it’s fitting…
Stigma, misinformation and poverty all conspire against women suffering from breast cancer, reports Denise Grady for the New York Times.…