Oct 12 Foreign Aid Advocates Fight Cuts to Programs That ‘Save Lives’ Food assistance headed to Libya. Photo by USAID. As annual budget decisions loom on Capitol Hill, international development advocates are pushing back against more proposed cuts to foreign aid. Aid programs took a hit earlier this year-- $8 billion was… Continue reading
Oct 11 Academia and Big Pharma Partner to Put New Drugs on the Market Bloomberg via Getty Images Big Pharma and university scientists are hopeful that a wave of new research collaborations between the two will speed up the drug discovery process and help put new drugs on a relatively stagnant market. Continue reading
Oct 11 WHO: Global TB Cases Decline for the First Time Tuberculosis patient in India. Photo by WHO/David Rochkind. For the first time on record, the number of people suffering from tuberculosis around the world is dropping, but a drug-resistant strain of the disease continues to spread at an alarming rate. Continue reading
Oct 10 In Denver, An Urban Garden Grows Healthier Foods – And Attitudes By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy In a low-income neighborhood in Denver, it used to be impossible to find fresh fruit or vegetables. Bordered on all sides by train tracks and highways, the 7,000 residents of Elyria-Swansea don't have a grocery store within two-and-a-half miles. Continue reading
Oct 10 Watch Urban Gardens Create Healthy Food Options Growhaus is a budding -- and booming -- urban garden in the neighborhood in Denver. Continue watching
Oct 07 Watch Panel’s Pitch to Nix Routine Prostate Cancer Tests Draws Strong Reaction The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said Friday that prostate specific antigen tests, known as PSAs, that are done to detect prostate cancer could be doing more harm than good. Jeffrey Brown discusses the latest controversial recommendation from the influential… Continue watching
Oct 07 Virus Hunters Stalk the Next Global Epidemic Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe. Photo by Tom Clynes. Ask the not-so-simple question of one of the world's leading virologists, "What is a virus?" and the reaction is immediate. He sits up in his chair, throws one leg over another. Continue reading
Oct 07 Global Health Week in Tweets Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse for our readers. Check out our Tweet picks from the world of global health this week, and be sure to send us your suggestions! Follow our… Continue reading
Oct 07 Advisory Panel: Essential Health Benefits Package Must Be Affordable By Phil Galewitz The government moved a step closer Friday toward defining what "essential benefits" would be offered by companies selling coverage to millions of Americans in new insurance exchanges. In a 297-page report, the Institute of Medicine, a federal advisory panel, laid… Continue reading
Oct 06 Faking Blood Tests to Avoid Discrimination in China By Talea Miller Carriers of hepatitis B routinely battle discrimination, now a new service offers to fake clean test results. Continue reading