The Millennium Villages Project was introduced into sub-Saharan African villages in order to co-ordinate improvements amongst multiple sectors, including agriculture, infrastructure, the environment, health, education and business…
After the discovery of Khalil Rasjed Dale’s beheaded and bullet-strewn body in Pakistan, the World Medical Association (WMA) denounced his appalling treatment. Dale worked in Pakistan as a health-program manager for the International Committee of the R…
Although adolescents have benefitted from progress in education and public health over the past two decades, a UNICEF report entitled “Progress for Children” reveals that tens of millions of adolescents are still without education and over 1 million ar…
A review published in The Lancet, reveals that careful earthquake preparation helped to lower mortality rates and the burden of injury during the February 22nd earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2011. According to the analysis, the emergency h…
Adam Levine, M.D., an emergency medicine physician with Rhode Island Hospital and a volunteer physician with International Medical Corps, was deployed to a field hospital near Misurata, Libya, during the conflict there. He and his colleagues cared for …
According to a report entitled “A Life Free from Hunger: Tackling Child Malnutrition” by Save the Children, nearly half a billion children are at risk of permanent damage in the next 15 years as a result of malnutrition. Chronic childhood malnutrition …
Survivors of Hurricane Katrina have struggled with poor mental health for years after the storm, according to a new study of low-income mothers in the New Orleans area. The study’s lead author, Christina Paxson of Princeton University, said that the re…
A study sponsored by the National Science Foundation found that most respondents felt the evacuation of New Orleans residents to the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina was a “failure” and this opinion has shaped their willingness to accept shelter if of…
It seems that every day another area of the economy is depressed because of the global financial crisis in the banks and governments around the world. This time it’s The Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria, which has announced it will make no new…
Researchers have released a preliminary report on the effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster on the surrounding areas, following radiation levels for approximately three months following the event and surveying more than 5,000 people in the region. …
