A man credited with saving tens of millions of lives died earlier this month in virtual obscurity. Just a few newspapers recorded his passing. But for some of us, Sir John Crofton was a hero.
medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding 76 projects using innovative ideas from chewing gum to chocolate to improve global health, and that of ...
New York Times | NICHOLAS WADE | Posted 11.15.2009 | New York
There are some things it is better just not to think about. Like the 10,000 bacteria you inhale with each breath in the average office building. Or th...
Johann Hari | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
Nobody knows why Cambodia's malaria parasites are such buffed-up hyper-Darwinian winners. Some scientists think it's because the treatments have been used there so long that the parasites have a head-start.
Michel D. Kazatchkine | Posted 08.09.2009 | World
It is the very success of hundreds of health programs supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria that has produced the surge in demand for fresh grants.
Huffington Post Contributor | Dr. Frederick Hartman | Posted 07.03.2009 | World
Hartman worked in Afghanistan from 1976 until the Soviet invasion in 1979; he returned in 2004, after the Taliban had been removed from power, and spe...
Josh Ruxin | Posted 07.02.2009 | World
The Global Fund is facing a funding shortfall of about $2 billion; a paltry sum in view of US financial bailouts, but resources that, if made available, will save millions of lives.
AP | Posted 05.11.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Hundreds of patients and staff at three Chicago-area hospitals may have been exposed to tuberculosis by a contagious health care worke...
NYCity News Service | Posted 05.08.2009 | World
The collapse of Zimbabwe's health system has created a humanitarian crisis where people are already suffering from a crippling hyperinflation and severe food, fuel and currency shortages.
McClatchy | Tim Johnson | Posted 05.02.2009 | World
The world is on the cusp of an explosion of drug-resistant tuberculosis cases that could deluge hospitals and leave physicians fighting a nearly untre...
Chi-Town Daily News | ALEX PARKER | Posted 04.25.2009 | Chicago
New cases of tuberculosis in Chicago have dropped to an all-time low, according to a study released by the Chicago Department of Public Health, with b...
AP | BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 04.24.2009 | World
RIO DE JANEIRO — The number of people infected with both tuberculosis and HIV is twice what researchers previously thought, top health officials...
AP | Posted 04.15.2009 | Home
ROMULUS, Mich. — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a passenger on a Northwest Airlines flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to Detr...
Carol Peasley | Posted 04.13.2009 | World
It is not enough -- and not appropriate -- for international NGOs to be directly providing services. We must simultaneously build local capacity, if not, none of the results will be sustainable.
Amy L. Fairchild, Ph.D. and Ronald Bayer, Ph.D. | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
Like the provision of medical care to the ill, an effective health system -- which keeps children and adults from becoming sick in the first place -- depends on both vision and commitment.
GlobalPost.com | Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne | Posted 02.13.2009 | World
TUGELA FERRY, KwaZulu Natal Province, South Africa -- Two health workers trudge up a steep, rocky hill carrying a blue cooler full of freezer packs ...
Diana Odasso | Posted 01.28.2009 | World
As I reflect on my holiday experience last year and in light of this year's economic and moral climate, I marvel on the ability of a few to change the lives of many.
Michel D. Kazatchkine | Posted 01.04.2009 | Living
In a world where inequality continues to grow, the recent gains in health form a bridge between the rich and the poor. We need to strengthen this bridge.
Josh Ruxin | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
It's time to send a clear signal to the Obama and McCain camps that issues of the poor world-wide are not disposable because of market downturns.
James Nachtwey | Posted 11.08.2008 | Living
Despite the fact that tuberculosis afflicts a huge number of people - it's not on the radar screen in terms of public awareness.
Leslie Griffith | Posted 08.05.2008 | Living
Every animal on the blue unit now performing in LA, then heading to San Diego and on to the San Francisco Bay area has either tested positive for tuberculosis, or has had a full blown case of M-TB.
Robert Weissman | Posted 08.01.2008 | Business
When countries entered IMF programs, TB rates went up. When the programs ended and countries escaped from IMF influence, TB rates went down.
The Washington Post | Stephen Glain | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
South Korean sources suggest that tuberculosis has affected as much as 5 percent of North Korea's population of 23 million. Linton estimates the Eugen...
Carole Mitnick | Posted 11.19.2009 | World