-
Long-term Health Problems After Natural Disasters Strike
Health obstacles plague communities long after a natural disaster.
- Categories
- Education, Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
-
Brazil’s healthcare solution: more Cuban doctors
The Brazilian government is carrying out a controversial scheme to address a shortage of medical professionals in rural areas by importing more doctors from Cuba, reports the Financial Times.
- Categories
- Education, Health Care
-
Security personnel to administer polio vaccine in Pakistan
Around 200 security personnel have been trained to immunise children against polio in north-western Pakistan after civilian workers refused to join an upcoming campaign against the crippling disease.
- Categories
- Education, Health Care
- Tags
- vaccines
-
Nigeria: Doctors Shelve Planned Strike
Medical Doctors have announced the suspension of its planned nationwide strike which was to take effect today.
- Categories
- Education, Health Care
-
Simple, Cheap Health Remedies Cut Child Mortality In Ethiopia
Poor countries are starting to realize something that richer ones sometimes forget: Basic, inexpensive measures can have dramatic impacts on the health of a country. And they can save thousands of lives. Take, for instance, the situation in Ethiopia.
- Categories
- Education, Health Care
-
A third of adults across world now overweight or obese
More than a third of all adults across the world are overweight or obese, a report from a British think-tank has revealed, leading to calls for governments to do more to tackle the growing crisis.
- Categories
- Education, Health Care
- Tags
- nutrition
-
Most effective way to reduce smoking? Increase price of cigarettes, study says
That is the conclusion of a new study that calls for a tripling of tobacco taxes and a doubling of the price of a pack of cigarettes in much of the world.
- Categories
- Education, Health Care
-
Watch The Gates Foundation’s New CEO In Action
Bill and Melinda Gates just announced that they have recruited Susan Desmond-Hellmann, until now the chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, as the chief executive of their foundation.
- Categories
- Education, Health Care
- Tags
- public health, vaccines