It’s a simple thing, a vaccine. But the simple lack of a vaccine in a poor community can bring death,…
World Health OrganizationWHO The World Health Assembly opens today in Geneva for week-long confab on what to do about global…
Drug resistance. Here’s WHO’s Dr. Margaret Chan warning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk1rUDQwgDE Yes, it’s a pretty boring video presentation — unless you actually…
My friends always tend to disbelieve me (in general, but also specifically) when I tell them that one out of…
The World Health Organization recently did a country-by-country evaluation of alcohol consumption and related health problems. Here is a link…
One of the hardest things for any organization working in development — or, well, anyone doing anything — is to…
The World Health Organization issued a report this week on how we’re doing in the battle against malaria. We’re doing…
Today could be the beginning of the end of a deadly and disabling epidemic of bacterial disease that, for reasons…
Ridding the world of disease not only saves lives. It also makes money. A new study published in the medical…
The World Health Organization issued its 2010 annual report today, focusing on how to assure all people have access to…