Clean Water Critical to Achieve Global Health Goals
When women and girls don't have to spend 200 million hours a day, seeking water, maybe they can go to school, maybe they can have more opportunities to help bring income in to the family, she cited.
Is Multidrug- Resistant Tuberculosis Rising as New Global Health Crisis?
Alarming new data suggests the global reach of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is a lot larger than previously estimated, and is going to require a intensive international effort to combat this deadlier form of the disease.
Newborn Screening for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Shows Promise as an International Model
Nationwide Children's Hospital Investigators, working with the DNA Sequencing Core Facility at the University of Utah, developed an approach to newborn screening for the...
TB Remains Among The Top Ten Killers of Children Worldwide
Tuberculosis (TB) among children is rarely discussed. Because children, more often than not cannot speak for themselves, not much about how they're affected by the disease ever hits the headlines.
Global Health Initiative Invests in Efforts to Reduce Maternal, Child Mortality
The President and Secretary Clinton have elevated the role and rights of women to unprecedented heights in US foreign policy and programming from diplomacy to development to defense.
