World leaders must fulfill their promises for TB funding
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.
Disease
A famous cancer cluster, 10 years later
“We don't have to have perfect certainty in order to have useful information.”
Living with diabetes and without health insurance
Access to affordable health care can mean the difference between managing diabetes well or suffering its most debilitating outcomes.
Our next pandemic’s playbook
Monica Gandhi on why our next pandemic response must center harm reduction, equality, and justice.
Vaccine hesitancy spills over to pets
Rabies in humans is vanishingly rare, thanks to vaccine mandates. Canine vaccine hesitancy puts that at risk.
In India, a doubly neglected tropical disease
The parasitic disease kala-azar, or black fever, may lead to a secondary illness, which can spark new infections.
Vaccines: a victory and a failure
Despite being one of our most impactful public health tools, vaccines continue to be pilloried in the public square.
We can’t let misinformation kill the new Lyme disease vaccine
Efforts to improve public trust in a future Lyme vaccine, and in all vaccines, must begin now.
Good nutrition is key to fight against tuberculosis
In a new study, patients with TB who gained weight in the first two months of treatment cut their mortality risk by 60 percent.
Using Tinder to trace syphilis
Online dating apps mean more people don’t know who their hookups are, making STIs harder to trace. Enterprising public health workers are finding ways to turn the apps into tracing tools.