global health

"They heard the screams, they heard the gunshots, and nobody stepped forward," the environmentalist said.

Negotiators have a COVID-19 funding deal the White House says is urgently needed. But it leaves out funding for global vaccination efforts.

"The Biden administration's decision to purchase and donate additional COVID-19 vaccine doses is the kind of bold leadership that is needed to end this global pandemic," said Tom Hart, acting CEO at The ONE Campaign.

"Whether they be natural, accidental, or deliberate, infectious disease outbreaks can cause significant harm to health, peace, and prosperity if countries are not adequately prepared," an author of the assessment said.

"Vaccine hesitancy" has been identified as one potential factor contributing to the 30 percent increase in measles cases around the world.

The Universal Cancer Databank will allow patients with rare cancers to share their data anonymously with researchers and other patients around the world using individual genome sequencing and profiling.

Increasingly strict drug regulations are creating a new health crisis outside the U.S.

This parasite, carried by a sandfly, kills tens of thousands pf people every year. Treatment exists, but the sickness can still disfigure and kill people.

Trump's proposed budget outlines sweeping cuts to global health programs.

The vaccine has shown partial success in immunizing young children against the disease.

Nearly 100 million children are infected with tuberculosis, which causes 2 million deaths each year.

The U.N. has accepted partial responsibility in Haiti's 2010 cholera crisis.

Fitness fads tend to come and go, but CrossFit has endured and expanded at a seemingly unstoppable pace.

A new study suggests a fifth of people living on earth could be severely overweight by 2025.

By reducing food availability, climate change could kill 500,000 by 2050

Global health ranks third below terrorism and climate change in a list of public concerns.

For developing nations, more people can exacerbate current problems.

The world is getting older and more ill.

A new report has warned that the silent epidemic is an "ever-increasing public health threat."

Barbara Bush and Melinda Gates described the impact of the Ebola outbreak on women's health.