Health

What Famine Refugees Are Eating

Tens of thousands of Somalis have starved to death this year from drought and famine conditions, says the United Nations, bringing a new level of urgency to World Food Day activities held over the weekend. The World Food Program…

PSA Testing Controversy Reignites 'Over-Screening' Debate

Photo by AFP/Getty Images Denham Kelsey seems like a healthy man -- a chronic dog-walker, professional pilot, and occasional scuba diver. The 54-year-old from Tucson recently hauled several tons of supplies to the top of his house and replaced the…

What the Death of the CLASS Act Means for Long-Term Disability Care

By Jason Kane

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Getty Images The Obama administration reversed course on a major provision of its landmark health care reform law Friday when Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that the CLASS Act…

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 global…

2 Million Deaths a Year Attributed to Pollution from Indoor Cookstove Fires

By Talea Miller

Cooking roti in India. Photo by Flickr user Michael Foley. A woman rises at dawn to prepare food for her family, building a small fire inside the house and frying bread on a makeshift stove above it. Some variation of…

Black Death's DNA Decoded Using Teeth From London's 'Plague Pits'

Illustration of the Black Death from the Toggenburg Bible An international consortium of researchers announced this week that they've managed to reconstruct the genome of Black Death -- the "great-grandmother" of modern plagues and the same illness that wiped…

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…

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.

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.

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.