Social interaction affects cancer patients’ response to treatment
This image depicts a chemotherapy ward co-presence network. Circles are patients with color based on when...
Ten Years of Saving Lives: Controlling Cancer in Zambia
The wards may be full and the waiting times long, but at least the patients at the Cancer Diseases Hospital (CDH) in Lusaka, Zambia have a chance of surviving their illness.
CDC reminds travelers to Europe: Protect against measles
With the peak summer travel season under way, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reminding travelers to Europe and other global destinations to take steps to protect themselves against measles amid outbreaks of the disease.
CDC awards $12 million to help states fight opioid overdose epidemic
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will be awarding this week more than $12 million to 23 states and the District of Columbia to support their responses to the opioid overdose epidemic. The funds will be used to strengthen prevention...
Earthjustice: Smoggy Skies Act A Handout To Big Polluters At Expense Of Public Heath
A child receives treatment for asthma.
New CDC report: More than 100 million Americans have diabetes or prediabetes
Number of children getting enough physical activity drops by 40%
Republican Health Care Overhaul Effort Suffers Another Setback
The latest Republican effort to overhaul the U.S. health care system fell apart Monday with two more Republican senators saying they would not support a bill unveiled last week by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
WHO estimates cost of reaching global health targets by 2030
The SDG Health Price Tag, published today in The Lancet Global Health, estimates the costs and benefits of progressively expanding health services in order to reach 16 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) health targets in 67 low- and middle-income...
1 in 10 infants worldwide did not receive any vaccinations in 2016
Worldwide, 12.9 million infants, nearly 1 in 10, did not receive any vaccinations in 2016, according to the most recent WHO and UNICEF immunization estimates. This means, critically, that these infants missed the first dose of diphtheria-tetanus-...
