Health May 16 Early HIV Treatment an Effective — But Costly — Prevention Method HIV medication. Photo by AFP/Getty Get HIV-positive patients on antiretroviral treatment. Now. That's the message from the landmark new study from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases showing that early treatment of HIV can help stop…
Health May 13 Top Five Global Health Headlines: HIV Prevention Breakthrough; Chronic Disease Killers HIV medications. Photo by AFP/Getty Early Use of HIV Drugs Could Prevent Transmission The key to slowing the spread of the HIV epidemic could lie in the medicines already being used to treat HIV positive patients, researchers at the…
World May 11 Slide Show: The Japan Crisis, 2 Months Later It has been two months since a catastrophic earthquake rocked Japan, triggering a massive tsunami and critically damaging the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In the slide show below, learn more about the toll and costs of the triple-disaster,…
Health May 05 Top Global Health Headlines: Pakistan Aid After Bin Laden; Doctors Detained Newsstand in Lahore on Tuesday. Photo by Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images Bin Laden Hideout Raises Pakistan Aid Questions The revelation that Osama bin Laden was living in a Pakistani city not far from Islamabad prior to his death has some…
Nation May 04 Mysterious Navy SEALs: 10 Must Reads U.S. Navy SEAL team. Photo by U.S. Navy. The names of the elite Navy SEALs who took down the world's most-wanted terrorist remain a secret, but the historic mission is drawing plenty of attention to the military's special operations…
World May 04 China Tries to Kick the Public Smoking Habit Smoker in Nanjing, China. Photo by Flickr user J. Unrau. When the NewsHour's global health team visited China last year for stories on tobacco, obesity and other health issues, they found a smoker's paradise and an anti-tobacco advocate's nightmare.
World May 03 Bin Laden’s Not-So-Customary Burial The body of Osama Bin Laden was released from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, pictured above. Photo by U.S. Navy Osama bin Laden's body now lies somewhere in the North Arabian Sea, a watery grave that some experts argue…
Health Apr 29 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Food Aid for N. Korea, China’s Aging Population A malnourished North Korean boy. Photo by WFP/Gerald Bourke. Emergency Food Aid Operation in North Korea The U.N. World Food Programme will deliver more than $200 million in emergency food aid to North Korea over the next year, the…
Health Apr 27 Report: African-American Women at Higher Risk for Maternal Death in Calif. In California, African-American women are dying of pregnancy related-causes at rates seen in some developing countries, and at four times the rate of white women and other ethnic groups in the state. A new report from the California Department…
Health Apr 22 Top Five Global Health Headlines: Violence in Libya, HIV Trial Halted, Drug Theft Humanitarian Needs in Libya The Libyan army may be scaling back in the besieged city of Misrata, the Associated Press reported Monday, after a bloody weekend of intense fighting and worsening humanitarian conditions. Hundreds of people have been killed…