Last week, a Pakistani doctor was sentenced by his government to three decades in prison for actions that helped the United States kill Osama bin Lade...
HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.30.2012
WASHINGTON -- A change of heart from the Obama administration may pave the way to a groundbreaking global deal to provide lifesaving medications to de...
HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2012
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has alarmed global health experts by opposing a new international fund that would fight disease in the developi...
David J. Olson | Posted 05.21.2012
WHO's tweets and Facebook messages had paid off. The salt panic in China dissipated as quickly as it had started. WHO had learned of the problem through social media and had rectified it in the same way.
Erin Thornton | Posted 05.18.2012
New data reveals that the number of women dying due to complications in pregnancy and childbirth continues to decrease, but there remains a huge inequity in maternal health that leaves the poorest countries most burdened.
Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.08.2012
Decisions around vaccine container size and type -- whether single-dose vial, multi-dose container or pre-filled syringe -- have important implications for a variety of stakeholders.
Peter Yeo | Posted 05.03.2012
When 83 percent of polled Republicans, Democrats and Independents are together on an issue, it stands out as more than simply a consensus -- it's a mandate. That's how many voters want the U.S. to maintain an active role in the U.N.
Posted 04.25.2012
In the time it takes for a malaria-infected mosquito to bite, you could do your part to end the spread of this deadly, but preventable, disease. Ev...
AP | Posted 04.24.2012
UNITED NATIONS — The global campaign to fight malaria is appealing for $3.2 billion to try to reach the U.N. goal of "near-zero" deaths from the...
Posted 04.20.2012
A new program being pushed by Mayor Bloomberg and the New York City Department of Health will try to convince city moms that breastfeeding is the, ahe...
AP | Posted 04.20.2012
HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam has asked international health experts to help investigate a mystery illness that has killed 19 people and sickened 171...
David de Ferranti | Posted 04.25.2012
Have you ever had to buy a long-lasting insecticide-treated bed net (LLIN)? Probably not, even if you live in Africa, where nine out of ten malaria-related deaths occur.
Robert Weissman | Posted 04.13.2012
American society is not sufficiently supportive of breastfeeding, and the everyday realities of many new mothers' lives make exclusive breastfeeding very challenging.
Michael Hodin | Posted 04.12.2012
Whoever makes the better sell of his Medicare vision may prove victorious come November.
Posted 05.23.2012
By 2030, nearly 20 percent of the U.S. population will be 65 and older, according to the federal Administration on Aging. Anticipating the challenges ...
Michael Hodin | Posted 04.06.2012
As life-spans routinely stretch into the 80s and 90s and as birth rates continue to drop to unprecedented lows, the importance of maintaining health as we age becomes even more crucial.
Andrew Gunther | Posted 04.02.2012
We use more antibiotics per kilogram of meat produced than any other nation in the world -- and we use 12 times as much as the country using the least, Norway.
Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.26.2012
Just because legislating immunization coverage works in the United States doesn't mean it will work in Pakistan. The main reason is that the drivers of under-vaccination in Pakistan and the United States are fundamentally different.
Salmaan Keshavjee | Posted 05.24.2012
"How unromantic it is to die of tuberculosis in the twenty-first century?"
Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 03.24.2012
In order to ensure that new tools are developed and today's treatments are provided, governments must prioritize tuberculosis as a public health priority and close the projected gaps in domestic and international funding.
Richard Greenly | Posted 05.22.2012
Lito Eduardo, a 12-year-old boy in Mozambique, is among the 40 percent of people in his country who don't have access to clean, safe water. As a resul...
C. M. Rubin | Posted 05.21.2012
World Water Day on March 22 is a day on which all global citizens should focus their attention on the importance of fresh water to sustainable development.
AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 03.21.2012
UNITED NATIONS -- The world's nations achieved a U.N. goal of cutting in half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water five year...
Tommy Standun | Posted 04.30.2012
Many organizations have been driven from the country by insecurity, and the provision of supplies is severely restricted as roads are often closed by various militia and military forces. But there is hope as Somali citizens provide assistance to their own.
Reuters | Stephanie Nebehay and Kate Kelland | Posted 04.18.2012
By Stephanie Nebehay and Kate Kelland GENEVA/LONDON (Reuters) - Two studies showing how scientists mutated the H5N1 bird flu virus into...
Foreign Policy | Posted 05.31.2012