2.2 million kids under the age of 5 die every year from diarrheal diseases. The vast majority of these deaths could be prevented with basic hygiene, water quality improvements and sanitation.
Lauren Cahn | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living
1. You don't have to be thin to be flexible. 2. To get into certain poses, however, it does help to be thin to make up for a lack of flexibility. ... 14. Yoga teachers are not "yoga therapists" unless trained as such.
Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 11.11.2009 | Impact
If you're at a school where your parents and your parents' friends might be investment bankers, ask them this week if they have ever considered investing in the life of a child in the developing world.
Lisa Conte | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
One of the collateral benefits of working in the global health arena is being reminded that disease doesn't exist in isolation.
John Sauer | Posted 10.19.2009 | Impact
Providing safe drinking water to those who need it is a hot cause right now. But will this"buzz" result in substantially more people getting access to water and sanitation?
Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 10.04.2009 | Living
There's a disease that American doctors are absolutely terrible at diagnosing. It's estimated that three million Americans have celiac disease, and only a small percentage of them know it.
Richard Chin | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
At OneWorld Health, we are working to discover and develop novel treatments for diarrheal disease that are safe, effective and affordable to even the poorest of the poor
John Sauer | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
Universal access to water and sanitation is still a pipe dream for many poorer countries, especially nations in Africa.
Jim Luce | Posted 06.15.2009 | World
The deaths of African children are all about food, water and cooking stoves. There is usually no public health system in place to address this tragic litany of otherwise very approachable issues.
John Sauer | Posted 06.14.2009 | World
Even those of us in the international development field have pretty much neglected the fact that diarrhea is still fatal in many parts of the world. It kills 1.6 million children each year.
Richard Chin | Posted 06.11.2009 | World
Diarrheal diseases, which kill approximately 2 million children under the age of five in every year continue to receive less attention than diseases like the swine flu virus.
John Sauer | Posted 05.10.2009 | World
If people joined together to support water and sanitation projects they could immediately help woman shatter the most basic of glass ceilings -- access to safe drinking water and sanitation.
Warren Holstein | Posted 05.02.2009 | Comedy
It seems that the FDA done did it again! Or didn't do it... what they're supposed be doing, that is, mainly regulate and prevent widespread contamination of our food supply from harmful microbes and bacteria.
Karl Hofmann | Posted 04.25.2009 | World
These days we take safe drinking water for granted. But unsafe water continues to kill -- and the numbers who die have grown to intolerable heights.
John Sauer | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics
Every 20 seconds, a child dies of sanitation-related diseases, which kill five times as many children as HIV/AIDS.
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 07.08.2008 | Living
Let me just get this out of the way: people poop when they run. So why the big fuss about some poor soul with splattered shorts? Must it be discussed on every fitness website?
Katherine Gustafson | Posted 11.13.2009 | World