Disease

The Changing Face of Service

Desmond Tutu | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Community Service, Bill Clinton, Hope, Non-Profits, Clinton Foundation, Desmond Tutu, Barack Obama, HIV/AIDS, Philanthropy, Ngo, Disease, Service, Africa, Hillary Clinton, Politics News
Desmond Tutu

At a time when the global economic landscape looks so bleak, it's especially fortunate that non-governmental organizations like the Clinton Foundation are going where governments can't go to bring hope.

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A National Blitz to Control Cholera in Zimbabwe

Caroline Gluck | Posted 01.06.2009 | World

Read More: Zimbabwe Cholera, Zimbabwe, Africa, Infectious Diseases, Disease, Epidemic, Music, Death, World News
Caroline Gluck

Cholera has now affected every province in Zimbabwe. More than 33,000 suspected cases have been reported and the disease has claimed over 1,600 deaths.

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Obama Drug Czar Pick Tied to Christian Rehab Linked to Contributor Charged with $3.5 Billion Fraud (Updated)

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Addiction, Faith-Based, Drug War, Teen Challenge, Earmarks, Ramstad, Disease, Drug Czar, Obama's Cabinet, Obama Cabinet, Drug Czar Jim Ramstad, Obama Drug Czar, Politics News
Maia Szalavitz

Ramstad's support for Teen Challenge shows a disregard for evidence-based treatment and either a willingness to abandon his beliefs about treating addiction or a failure to investigate what kinds of programs he funds.

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World AIDS Day: A Spiritual Approach

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 12.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Pandemic, HIV/AIDS, Gay, Health, Disease, World AIDS Day, Living News
Dr. Susan Corso

Imagine, in the face of the despair, a young pastor delivering a sermon to a principally gay, male congregation on the spirituality of HIV/AIDS.

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Am I Slowly Giving Myself a Heart Attack?

Leslie Goldman | Posted 11.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Cholesterol, Heart, Oatmeal, Stephanie Izard, Martini, Bloggers, Disease, Health, Banana, Wine, Padma, Top Chef, Living Proof, Volgman, Quaker, Women and Heart Disease, Heart Disease, Preventing Heart Disease, Living News
Leslie Goldman

Our gender may not believe we're as vulnerable as our male counterparts, but we account for nearly half of all heart attack deaths.

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FDA and Vouchers for Neglected Diseases: A Bad Idea Gone Bad

Merrill Goozner | Posted 11.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Malaria, Healthcare Vouchers, Fda, Neglected Diseases, Disease, Health, Living, Living News
Merrill Goozner

The unintended consequences of an ill-conceived incentive scheme will be on full display when Novartis goes before an FDA advisory committee seeking approval for its anti-malarial pill.

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The President and the Planet, On a Budget

DotEarth | Andrew C. Revkin | Posted 11.05.2008 | Green

Read More: Population, Politics, Global, Poverty, President Obama, Military, Defense, Equity, Economics, Climate, Disease, Sustainability, Presidency, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Climate Change, Green News

President-elect Barack Obama on Jan. 20 will become the most important leader of a species that has exploded in just six generations from a total popu...

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Universal Health Care and the 2008 Election -- How Is It Still Possible After the Fiscal Meltdown?

Thomas DeLorenzo | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Health Care, 2008 Election, Health, Disease, Economic Crisis, Politics News
Thomas DeLorenzo

Did the financial meltdown destroy all hopes for any chance of a new health care system?

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Climate Change May Spread 'Deadly Dozen' Diseases, HHS Releases New Fitness Guidelines, Obese People's Behavior at Buffets VIDEO >>

George Spyros | Posted 10.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Obesity Crisis, Climate Change, Heart Disease, Obesity Epidemic, Disease, Health, Onesity, Living News
George Spyros

Insider Medicine reports: • From Barcelona » According to experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society climate change may allow the spread of d...

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Day One: There Is a New Green in Town

Sloan Barnett | Posted 10.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Disease, Books, Green, Environment, Asthma, Green Living, Enviromentalism, Green News
Sloan Barnett

The cause of my son's asthma may have been me. I may have been poisoning my own son by using certain cleaning products.

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Raising Awareness About TB

James Nachtwey | Posted 10.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Tb, Poor, Poverty, Tuberculosis, Health, Disease, Living News
James Nachtwey

Despite the fact that tuberculosis afflicts a huge number of people - it's not on the radar screen in terms of public awareness.

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The Next Wonder Drug? Just Ask Mother Nature

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 09.03.2008 | Green

Read More: Mother Nature, Disease, Health, Nature, Environment, Israel, Cancer, Cures, Tel Aviv University, Treehugger, Flower Power, Green News
Karin Kloosterman

I talk with scientific researchers every day, and can't help but notice a growing trend: what was once relegated to the realm of naturopaths, witchdoc...

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"Revolutionary" News From Medicine: 1 in 200 People Carry Mitochondrial Disease Mutation

David Kirby | Posted 08.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Hannah Poling, Autism, Disease, Vaccines, Mitochondria, Living News
David Kirby

Until now, estimates of mitochondrial disease rates have held steady at about 1-in-4000 people. A new study shows that 20 times that number have genetic mutations that could cause the disease.

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Obama's Europe Blindspot: Why Did He Skip Europe's Institutional Heart?

Steve Clemons | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Europe, Germany, Global Economy, Brussels, United Kingdom, Brandenberg Gate, Chuck Hagel, China, Barack Obama, Jack Reed, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Gordon Brown, France, Gayle Smith, Susan Rice, Disease, Climate Change, Oil, Russia, Angela Merkel, Failing States, Politics News
Steve Clemons

(Obama Does Brown but Not Brussels) I'm strongly supportive of Barack Obama's announced plans to spend some quality plane time with Senators Chuck H...

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Pervasive Stigma Surrounds Women Living with HIV/AIDS

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 04.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Women's Sexuality, Women With HIV, HIV/AIDS, Stds, Women With AIDS, United State HIV/AIDS, Women's Health, Disease, Female Condom, Safe Sex, Public Health, HIV/AIDS Stigma, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Amfar, Living News
Susan Blumenthal, M.D.

Women with HIV/AIDS may suffer greater stigma than men -- they may be blamed as carriers, either as prostitutes infecting men or mothers infecting their infants.

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The Real Bush Legacy May Be in Africa

Josh Ruxin | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Bush Africa, NTD, Africa, Aids, Disease, Bush, Politics News
Josh Ruxin

When Bush pledged to "help save lives and to bring hope to families," it was not merely rhetoric. What a fresh change for this administration and for the U.S.'s role in promoting development worldwide.

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Health Diplomacy: A Prescription for Peace

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 11.19.2007 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Military, Infectious Diseases, World Health Organization, Disease, Miltary Foreign Policy, Pew Poll Military Engagement, Malaria, Aids, Tb, Acheiving Peace, Health Diplomacy, Politics News
Susan Blumenthal, M.D.

Americans have only returned to recognizing that improving global health, in terms of preventing and treating both infectious and chronic diseases, must be a public policy priority.

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Ladies Who Launch: Health in the City

Amy Swift | Posted 11.07.2007 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, Homeopathic Remedies, Eating Organic, Holistic Eating, Food as Medicine, Disease, Ladies Who Launch, How to Eat Healthier, Flu, Cancer, Organic Foods, How to Live Better, Living News
Amy Swift

Before big pharmaceutical companies got very rich and before doctors had bad handwriting, ancient people used their intuition to discover healing remedies concocted from food and plants.

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UN Rushes To Contain Outbreak Of Ebola Virus In Central Congo

New York Times | JEFFREY GETTLEMAN | Posted 09.11.2007 | Home

Read More: Virus, Disease, Outbreak, Africa, Ebola, Congo, Home News

United Nations officials reported an outbreak of Ebola virus in central Congo today and were rushing supplies and doctors into the region to contain t...

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