Thanks to unprecedented levels of funding and extraordinary collaboration among partners, the malaria community has achieved remarkable progress.
Pat Choate | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics
Opening medicine distribution to massive imports from foreign-based producers will create enormous opportunities for unscrupulous sellers of unsafe medicines in America.
Josh Ruxin | Posted 11.27.2009 | Politics
World AIDS Day has become a time to reflect on the daunting challenges we face in the battle against this tenacious killer. Although huge strides hav...
bloomberg.com | Michelle Fay Cortez & Marianne Stigset | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
European public health officials are investigating a handful of swine flu infections in Norway and Wales in which the virus mutated to a form that's m...
Dr. Cara Natterson | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
No one is certain what cell phones do to our brains when we endlessly rest them against our heads. At best, it's nothing. At worst, it's damage that will translate into an enormous spike in brain cancer.
The Atlantic | Clayton M. Christensen and Jason Hwang | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living
Vaccination is central to the government's plan for preventing deaths from swine flu. But what if everything we think we know about fighting influenza...
Jim Luce | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York
"Polio is only a plane ride away." So began my sobering interview with Carol Pandak, Manager of PolioPlus for Rotary International about polio, a cr...
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.
Philip Lee Miller | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
Service, expertise, and time. Those are the real challenges of the Healthcare debate.
AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE and MICHAEL CASEY | Posted 11.24.2009 | World
BANGKOK — For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and ...
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business
How are we going to compete in years to come as we go head-to-head with societies that are far better equipped to deal with the exigencies of the future?
Dr. Dennis Gottfried | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Physicians ration care daily based on the patient's type of insurance, on our office's ability to obtain preauthorization, on patient's demands, and on the patient's willingness to pay.
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
In our country, sickness sells. With money-driven medicine, there is little incentive to prevent illness.
Kate Southwood | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
So if America is already spending more on health care than anyone else and if America's health care technology is second-to-none, why isn't health care a fundamental right?
Jeffrey Smith | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living
Stop eating dangerous genetically modified foods! That's the upshot of the Lyme Induced Autism (LIA) Foundation's position paper released today.
B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 09.24.2009 | Media
My grandmother was one of the first people a pacemaker was used on. A lot of very sincere people believe that if Obama's health care reform bill passes, old people will essentially be facing death panels and denied care.
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...
Diane Francis | Posted 09.19.2009 | Business
Now that the Americans appear to have blown another chance to fix their health care system, it's time for Canadian physicians and others to ratchet up the industry offering selective services to Americans.
Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living
The best way to prevent HIV and other STIs -- whether you're circumcised, uncircumcised, gay, straight, male or female -- is through education and condom use.
Jim Luce | Posted 08.28.2009 | World
EngenderHealth focuses on far more than fistula repair and prevention. They are dedicated to improving the overall health and well-being of people in the countries where they work.
Richard Chin | Posted 08.16.2009 | World
There must be multiple approaches to leveraging intellectual property to advance the development of life-saving drugs to combat neglected diseases.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
The last time the World Health Organization stacked up countries' health systems, the United States came in 37th, behind Chile, Morocco, Cyprus and even drug war-torn Colombia.
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...
Ray Chambers | Posted 12.15.2009 | World