Aug 15 Donations for East Africa Famine Victims Falling Short By Talea Miller A malnourished refugee child in Dadaab, Kenya. Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images. Scenes of emaciated children and weary families crowded into refugee camps have been playing on televisions around the world for weeks now. But the famine hitting the Horn… Continue reading
Aug 12 Global Health Week in Tweets By Talea Miller 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 09 Global Rise in C-Sections Troubles Experts By Talea Miller C-section rates are skyrocketing in some of the world's poorest countries for reasons that may have little to do with the health of the mother or the child. Continue reading
Aug 08 Can Seawater Solve Our Water Woes? By Talea Miller Photo by Flickr user Allan Foster. Most of the earth is covered by water, yet more than a third of the global population experiences periodic shortages of the kind used for drinking and agriculture. So why not convert seawater into… Continue reading
Aug 04 Reporter’s Notebook: India’s New Baby Boom By Fred de Sam Lazaro Indian surrogate mothers. Photo by Fred de Sam Lazaro Thursday on the NewsHour, you'll see an excerpt of the film "Made in India," which documents the journey of an infertile American couple and their Indian surrogate. It's part of… Continue reading
Aug 03 Haiti Braces for Storm, Cholera Surge By Talea Miller Cholera patient in Haiti. Photo by American Red Cross. A tropical storm bearing down on Haiti threatens to make daily life more miserable for tens of thousands homeless still living in tent camps and could deepen the cholera epidemic that… Continue reading
Jul 29 Global Health Week in Tweets By Talea Miller Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development. [View the story "Weekly Twitter Round Up" on Storify]… Continue reading
Jul 29 A Year Later, Funding Still Needed for Pakistan Flood Victims By Talea Miller A woman prays by the Ravi river in August 2010, after the worst flooding in 80 years. Photo by Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images. This week marks one year since historic flooding submerged a fifth of Pakistan and displaced more than 4… Continue reading
Jul 27 Hepatitis Risk Spikes for Drug Users By Talea Miller More than 2 billion people around the world are infected with hepatitis, a staggering figure that equals nearly one-third of the globe's population. Injection drug users are particularly vulnerable to the disease and new data out in the… Continue reading
Jul 26 A Day in the Life of Japan’s ‘Nuclear Gypsies’ By Talea Miller More than 2,500 contract workers, lured by the promise of guaranteed work during an economic downturn, brave dangerously high radiation at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant. Continue reading