As headlines focus on COVID-19, and now monkeypox, tuberculosis remains one of the great scourges of infectious disease around the world. Approximately 1.5 million people died of tuberculosis in 2020, the World Health Organization ...
May 23, 2022
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Cigarettes are the only legal consumer product that kill up to half of their users when consumed exactly as the manufacturer intended. The diseases they cause cost Australia's health system A$136.9 billion a year.
Sep 30, 2021
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A national survey sample of adults who had discussions with their physicians in the preceding two years about common medical tests, medications and procedures often did not reflect a high level of shared decision making, ...
May 27, 2013
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Latin American states preparing for the onslaught of the new coronavirus on Thursday tightened restrictions on travel links to Europe as the region recorded its third death in the outbreak.
Mar 12, 2020
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Not only do U.S. travelers to West Africa who consult health providers before they leave and take prescribed preventive medications substantially reduce their risk of contracting malaria, they also reduce costs to their health ...
Sep 23, 2013
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Indonesia's failure to reduce the number of COVID-19 cases nine months after declaring its first cases in March reflects its slow and poor responses to the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. Its handling of the virus has taken ...
Dec 4, 2020
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Now is not the time to make cautious investments: now is the time for courageous action to tackle coronavirus (COVID-19).
Mar 19, 2020
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The chain breaks here, in a tiny medical clinic in Burkina Faso that went nearly a year without a working refrigerator.
Oct 19, 2020
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Hospitals in Bolivia's eastern Santa Cruz region struggled Wednesday to keep up with an outbreak of dengue that has killed at least 26 people.
Feb 15, 2023
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Brazil warned pregnant women Monday to stay away from the Summer Olympics after the World Health Organization declared an international emergency over the Zika virus, blamed for causing a surge in brain-damaged babies.
Feb 2, 2016
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