More than half of volunteer community health care workers in 19 countries experience labor exploitation, including sub-minimum-wage pay and excess work hours, Mount Sinai researchers report in the first systematic review ...
Sep 19, 2023
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The phrase "representative sample" is common parlance in scientific studies—and it's commonly used these days to talk about a lack of racial and ethnic representation in clinical trials.
Sep 15, 2023
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Women in rural Malawi are learning how to detect breast cancer thanks to the country's first dedicated training program for health workers, aimed at reducing the burden of the disease.
Sep 13, 2023
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Fewer than one in 20 patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer (CRC) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) receive guideline-concordant treatment, according to a study published in the September issue of the Journal of the National ...
Sep 12, 2023
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Bangladesh is experiencing its most severe dengue outbreak on record, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, partly blaming climate change for contributing to the spread of such mosquito-borne diseases.
Sep 6, 2023
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A new study has been published in The Lancet Global Health showing that almost one in three men over the age of 15 are infected with at least one genital human papillomavirus (HPV) type, and one in five are infected with ...
Sep 4, 2023
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Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the regions most affected by HIV. In Nigeria alone, an estimated 1.8 million people are living with the virus.
Aug 28, 2023
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Administering preventive tuberculosis (TB) treatment to contacts of infected people could significantly cut deaths, and save money, researchers say.
Aug 8, 2023
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Anemia affected nearly 2 billion people in 2021, impacting women to a greater degree than men. In a new study covering three decades of global anemia data (1990–2021), a complex picture emerges of how several key factors ...
Jul 31, 2023
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Monash University researchers have uncovered why some intestinal worm infections become chronic in animal models, which could eventually lead to human vaccines and improved treatments.
Jul 31, 2023
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