Disease

Jim Morris’s new book chronicles failures to protect workers at every level of the system.

For the first time in decades, tuberculosis is on the rise. Governments must mobilize the funds they’ve already committed for diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.

“We don't have to have perfect certainty in order to have useful information.”

Access to affordable health care can mean the difference between managing diabetes well or suffering its most debilitating outcomes.

Monica Gandhi on why our next pandemic response must center harm reduction, equality, and justice.

Rabies in humans is vanishingly rare, thanks to vaccine mandates. Canine vaccine hesitancy puts that at risk.

The parasitic disease kala-azar, or black fever, may lead to a secondary illness, which can spark new infections.

Despite being one of our most impactful public health tools, vaccines continue to be pilloried in the public square.

Efforts to improve public trust in a future Lyme vaccine, and in all vaccines, must begin now.

In a new study, patients with TB who gained weight in the first two months of treatment cut their mortality risk by 60 percent.