For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we are talking with Riyadh Lafta, an epidemiologist who focuses on violence and was one of the leading public health researchers who challenged the official U.S. government claims of low civilian casualties from the 2003 Iraq War.
Child death rates are plummeting and child health overall is improving, according to a study published yesterday in The Lancet.…
Despite overall improvements in maternal death rates, women receive poor-quality care in all countries, and the mortality-rate gap between rich…
More people are dying from viral liver disease than ever before, scientists have found. While much progress has been made…
Despite donors’ investments in global health, there are huge disparities in health spending across the world. On average, for every…
The fight against the West African Ebola outbreak continues. Three new cases were confirmed in Liberia on Friday, just days…
China’s legendary village-based health care system, known as the barefoot doctors program, helped inspire a global movement. In 1978, the…
A commentary arguing the International Monetary Fund (IMF) helped to weaken health care in the West African countries struggling with…
A massive cause-of-death study finds that we are living about six years longer than we did in 1990, that child…
Savannah Sly is a retired sex worker in Seattle who remains quite active as an organizer campaigning for the de-criminalization…