By Lauren Hashiguchi, special to Humanosphere Five years after a massive earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince, the crowded capital of Haiti, killing…
Noncommunicable diseases like heart disease, cancer and diabetes, are increasingly affecting young people in low- and middle-income countries. Worse still,…
There’s a global push to increase efforts against so-called noncommunicable diseases (NCD) like obesity, diabetes and heart disease – all of which are largely driven by poor dietary or lifestyle behaviors. The food and beverage industry has, since the beginning of this push against NCDs, pushed back against many efforts they see as singling out ‘fast food’ as bad food. So it is worth taking a closer look at how Mexico fares in its fight against fat.
Flickr, su-lin The ‘junk food’ industry is a major threat to global health, according to study published in The Lancet…
Flickr, su-lin A month ago, some investigative reporters at Reuters did a big expose article contending the World Health Organization…
Analysis The World Health Organization has published its annual health report for 2012 and this year decided to “put the…
A news analysis: As I head home from the Big Apple, the big news here today is that Palestine formally…
The big global health meeting at the United Nations has come and gone I still can’t quite tell if anything…
Flickr, Roadsidepictures Members of the United Nations General Assembly met this week to come up with a plan to combat…
This is a guest post from Wendy Johnson, a physician at the University of Washington with extensive experience working health…