Dec 23 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Vatican Clarifies on Condoms, Cholera Vaccine By Talea Miller Vatican Clarifies Condom Statement The Vatican's Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith issued a statement Tuesday reaffirming that the church does not condone the use of condoms to prevent pregnancy, in an effort to clarify controversial statements made… Continue reading
Dec 22 Cuba Offers Poor Medical Students a Free Ride By Cat Wise On Wednesday's NewsHour, Ray Suarez wraps up his series on Cuba with a look at its medical diplomacy efforts around the world. HAVANA, Cuba | In an old naval academy on Havana's western shore, thousands of low-income students… Continue reading
Dec 22 Watch Debt-Free Doctors Part of Cuba’s Foreign Policy Strategy Ray Suarez wraps up his series on Cuba with a look at a "medical diplomacy" program that offers medical school education to low-income students from around the world. Continue watching
Dec 21 In Photos: Scenes from Cuba By Cat Wise The second installment in a three-part Global Health series on Cuba airs Tuesday on the NewsHour. View photos from the team's trip through Havana below and tune in to learn more about Cuba's universal health care system and the… Continue reading
Dec 21 Festival Gives Cubans a Window to the World By Tom LeGro The grand lobby of Havana's historic Hotel Nacional de Cuba was humming with activity earlier this month as documentary filmmakers, directors, actors and producers from around Latin America gathered to pay homage to their craft at the International Festival of… Continue reading
Dec 21 Watch Cuba’s Emphasis on Preventive Medicine Ray Suarez continues his series from Havana with a report on the Cuban health care system's emphasis on preventive medicine. Continue watching
Dec 20 What We’re Reading: Year-end Wraps, Interstellar Space and Magnified Mushroom Mold Biochemist Photo-Fiddler Here's a fun, visual story on a GlaxoSmithKline biochemist who, in his spare time, used small mirrors, PVC pipes and an old computer hard drive to design a specialized camera that snaps photos of insects in flight. Continue reading
Dec 20 Watch Cubans Grapple With Challenges, Promises of Economic Change Ray Suarez and the NewsHour Global Health Unit kick off a three-part series from Cuba with a report from Havana on how the country's economy is adapting to the gradual economic reforms of President Raul Castro -- while maintaining a… Continue watching
Dec 17 Preview: The NewsHour in Cuba By Talea Miller The NewsHour is airing a three part series on Cuba next week, beginning on December 20. Ray Suarez and the global health team traveled to the island nation earlier this month to report on signs of possible economic change, the… Continue reading
Dec 16 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Stem Cell Treatment for HIV, Haiti Cholera By Talea Miller HIV Patient 'Cured' A patient with HIV and leukemia has been declared cured of both diseases through stem cell treatment, a team of Berlin doctors wrote this week in a peer-reviewed study in the journal Blood. The results suggest… Continue reading