Health Archive
Archives for November 2014
These stories didn’t kill you, but they got a lot of attention anyway.
An interview with Joanne Liu, president of Doctors Without Borders
What makes up the burden of disease in people over the age of 60, in poor and rich countries, is surprisingly similar.
There are outbreaks of bird flu on farms in Europe that have health officials worried.
Everything you need to know about the shape we’re in, how we got here, and the cost of this public-health crisis.
Here’s what Dr. Martin Salia’s son had to say about his father.
Obesity, cancer, diabetes, and heart disease fall lower on the list.
These two paragraphs explain why fear overcame facts in this epidemic.
The pages we visit might be more telling than we realize
Exactly 42 days after the virus was first diagnosed in the United States, the country now appears to be completely Ebola free.
A virus that might be causing paralysis in kids, a mosquito-borne disease that leads to long-term joint pain, and other health horrors we’ve been ignoring.
Berkeley voters approved the country’s most aggressive approve soda-tax Tuesday, giving a policy long-supported by public health experts its first shot at a real-life experiment.
Starting today, Facebook users can give to Ebola charities with the click of a button.
A visual guide to Republicans’ huge victory.
Canada just became one of two developed countries to ban visas for West Africans.