Aug 22 Brain-Eating Amoeba Lurk in U.S. Lakes. But Should You Worry? Photo by Flickr user Toby Simkin. Brain-eating amoeba, found in warm lakes, streams, and hot springs, are back. Or more accurately, they never went away. Three people have died in recent weeks after attacks from a single-celled… Continue reading
Aug 22 Overtreating Malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa By Talea Miller In countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa, health workers often treat patients for malaria even when a test indicates the parasite isn't present. The practice worries many health experts. Continue reading
Aug 19 Study: Black Researchers Receive Fewer NIH Grants James A. Shannon Building at the National Institutes of Health. Photo by National Institutes of Health Library. A new study by the National Institutes of Health found a disturbing gap between the number of grants awarded to white scientists… Continue reading
Aug 19 Global Health Week in Tweets Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development. Follow us on Twitter at NewsHourGlobal. View "Weekly Twitter Round Up" on Storify… Continue reading
Aug 18 WHO: Libya Facing Medical Supply Crisis By Talea Miller Doctors treat a baby in Misrata, Libya. Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images. The World Health Organization is rushing to secure medical supplies for Libya now that millions in Gadhafi's government assets can be used for urgent health needs. The Dutch… Continue reading
Aug 17 Proposed Rules Call for 'Apples-to-Apples' Health Insurance Comparison By Jason Kane Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images Finding the cheapest insurance plan for diabetes or breast cancer patients may soon be just as easy as flipping soup cans to compare calorie counts and sodium content. Under a set of proposed federal regulations… Continue reading
Aug 17 Delivery of Global AIDS Funding Drops 10 Percent HIV testing in Haiti. Photo by UNICEF. There's been a slowdown in HIV/AIDS donations from rich countries to developing nations, according to a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation and UNAIDS. An analysis released this week found… Continue reading
Aug 16 Watch 5 Months After Meltdown, Fukushima Citizens Still Face Radioactive Risks Five months after the deadly tsunami and Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, Japanese authorities have acknowledged that they misled residents about the radioactive dangers. John Sparks of Independent Television News gets an inside look at the area and reports on… Continue watching
Aug 16 Study: Smoking, Bladder Cancer Link Higher in Women than Previously Thought Photo by Chris Goodney/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Cigarettes may be the smoking gun behind half of the bladder cancer cases for women in the United States, scientists from National Cancer Institute announced Tuesday. Published in the Journal of the… Continue reading
Aug 16 Thwarting Polio in the Land of Bricks and Bangles An army of vaccination teams working in high-risk areas of India are helping fight the crippling polio virus. Continue reading