The world has made tremendous progress in global health during the past 25 years, reducing the impact of some major…
Child death rates are plummeting and child health overall is improving, according to a study published yesterday in The Lancet.…
By Emma Swanhuyser Suicide rates in India are climbing faster than in the rest of the world with Indian women having…
More people are dying from viral liver disease than ever before, scientists have found. While much progress has been made…
One of the things you can always count on this time of year are stories in the media about the…
Nearly a million children worldwide die every year from pneumonia – more than die from HIV, measles and malaria combined.…
China’s legendary village-based health care system, known as the barefoot doctors program, helped inspire a global movement. In 1978, the…
If you asked the average global health professional to name the countries where alcohol caused the most health problems, what…
In the pantheon of human aches, pains and killer diseases, few might think back pain merits much attention. But, in…
There’s plenty of moral and rhetorical support for fighting diseases of poverty, but if you look at global health spending…