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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.
Hemi Weingarten | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green
Wouldn't it be nice if the FDA cleaned up the mess originally created when it brought us the nutrition facts label as we know it today?
Peter Christian Hall | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
In this season of swine flu discontent, the annual shot aimed at quelling "normal" flu may have a bad year.
Joellen Raderstorf | Posted 10.16.2009 | Denver
Where is our collective panic about climate change? Our energy consumptive lifestyles do not blink in the quake of devastating floods, receding glaciers and starving children.
AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 09.21.2009 | World
BEIJING — The global spread of swine flu will endanger more lives as it speeds up in the coming months and governments must boost preparations f...
AP | Posted 08.13.2009 | World
LONDON -- A fully licensed H1N1 flu vaccine might not be available until the end of the year, a top official at the World Health Organization said Mon...
AP | MARIA CHENG and FRANK JORDANS | Posted 07.12.2009 | World
GENEVA — Swine flu is now formally a pandemic, a declaration by U.N. health officials that will speed vaccine production and spur government spe...
AP | MARIA CHENG and FRANK JORDANS | Posted 07.11.2009 | World
GENEVA — Swine flu is now formally a pandemic, a declaration by U.N. health officials that will speed vaccine production and spur government spe...
Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.04.2009 | Entertainment
This year's BookExpo in New York City had its usual small arena of publishers at gussied-up kiosks hawking the latest and greatest by writers known and unknown.
AP | FRANK JORDANS | Posted 06.21.2009 | World
GENEVA — Girls born in Japan today are likely to live until the year 2095, some with a good chance of seeing the dawn of the next century thanks...
AP | Posted 06.21.2009 | Living
GENEVA — The World Health Organization says women in Japan have the highest life expectancy in the world with 86 years. WHO says men in San Mari...
James Love | Posted 06.20.2009 | World
Negotiators say that with regard to medical R&D, Obama is following the Bush game plan even more aggressively than was done when Bush was president.
AP | FRANK JORDANS and MARIA CHENG | Posted 06.19.2009 | World
GENEVA — The World Health Organization urged drugmakers to reserve some of their pandemic swine flu vaccine for poor countries, but received few...
DPA | Posted 06.14.2009 | World
There is no evidence to support a theory that the new influenza A(H1N1) virus was created in a laboratory, a World Health Organisation official said T...
ABC News | LEE FERRAN and JOSH GAYNOR | Posted 06.14.2009 | World
An Australian researcher claims the swine flu, which has killed at least 64 people so far, might not be a mutation that occurred naturally but a man-m...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.07.2009 | World
The media's coverage of the H1N1 swine flu epidemic has been criticized by many for being overblown, fire-fanning, scare-mongering, overly hyped, and ...
Global Times | Posted 06.05.2009 | World
Following its accusation of China's "discrimination" against its citizens during attempts to contain the far-reaching A (H1N1) influenza, the Mexican ...
LA Times | Thomas H. Maugh II | Posted 06.02.2009 | World
Although the pace of new H1N1 infections seemingly slowed on Saturday -- with a total of 195 cases reported in the United States and 763 worldwide, an...
Washington Post | Joel Achenbach and David Brown | Posted 06.01.2009 | Home
So is this new swine flu outbreak the next great plague, or just a global spasm of paranoia? ...
AP | MIKE STOBBE and DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 06.01.2009 | World
The swine flu outbreak that has alarmed the world for a week now appears less ominous, with the virus showing little staying power in the hardest-hit ...
UPI | Posted 05.31.2009 | World
Eleven countries officially reported 257 cases of H1N1, or swine flu, the World Health Organization in Geneva reported Thursday....
AP | FRANK JORDANS | Posted 05.31.2009 | World
GENEVA — The World Health Organization announced Thursday it will would stop using the term "swine flu" to avoid confusion over the danger posed...
Ben Sherwood | Posted 05.30.2009 | World
In the weeks ahead, there will be plenty of hysteria (and misinformation) about the swine flu. If you can, try to focus on what you can control: Your hygiene, your contact with others, and your health.
AP | PATRICK McGROARTY | Posted 05.30.2009 | World
GENEVA — The World Health Organization has raised its pandemic alert for swine flu to the second highest level, meaning that it believes a globa...
Globe And Mail | Posted 05.30.2009 | World
The World Health Organization is moving closer to raising the pandemic alert level once again as the swine flu outbreak continues to hop from one coun...
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Katherine Gustafson | Posted 11.13.2009 | World