Disease

Millions of lives have been saved since President George W. Bush established the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in 2003—but what’s next?

With a new director on the horizon, experts offer the agency fixes to four key problems.

Oral health may be key to disease prevention and mitigation. We need better data and tech to find out how.

Wastewater surveillance was a key tool in the fight against COVID-19. As pandemic control measures wane, does it have a future?

The global health system isn't serving everyone. Nations prioritizing health security over humanitarian aid need to correct course.

Wealthy nations are preparing for a future pandemic while ignoring an ancient scourge: TB, a lethal disease that infects 2 billion people worldwide.

Rising rates of alcohol-related liver disease means we must change transplant criteria, says medical student John Messinger.

Experts discuss how to best contain outbreaks as climate change and political instability make the cholera pandemic a continued 21st century threat.

The WHO's "End TB" strategy falters as COVID-19, armed conflicts, and natural disasters redirect aid, disrupt TB detection and treatment.

Addiction treatment remains scarce, so why don’t more doctors treat it? Medical student John Messinger says stigma is a major barrier.