Episode 97: MSF Nurse Michelle Mays, She Saves Lives in Crisis ZonesMichelle Mays is a nurse with Doctors without Borders, better known of course as MSF. She has worked in conflict...
3 Maps of that Explain Cancer’s Global BurdenIt’s World Cancer Day. So, let’s talk about cancer! The first two maps come via PRI’s The World. It shows...
The WHO Declares Zika Emergency. What Now?The World Health Organization has just declared the Zika Virus outbreak in Latin America to be a “public health emergency...
Can the International Community Prevent the Coming Zika Crisis?Earlier today, World Health Organization executive director Margaret Chan announced that the WHO would hold an emergency meeting on Monday...
After Tragedy, a Successful UN Test Case in Peru for Reproductive RightsFifteen years ago in Lima, Peru a 17-year-old girl, K.L., was told her unborn fetus had anencephaly. The birth defect...
Zika Virus – How Worried Should we be, Anyway?Zika is a virus that spreads via mosquito rather than person-to-person. Historically it has been confined to a narrow area...
How the USA and the UN Helped Defeat Ebola in West AfricaEd note. This post was originally published in February 2015, when the WHO declared that the ebola outbreak in West...
Climate Change is bringing this deadly bacterial disease to the USAMelioidosis is a little-known bacterial infection that affects both humans and animals. It responds to very few antibiotics and is...
Antibiotics are essential to human health. So why are we wasting them to make farm animals a tiny bit bigger?The increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics is one of the most terrifying under-the-radar issues in global health. All of...