Public Health

The world thought it knew how to deal with Ebola outbreaks—but it’s never dealt with one like this before.

Deadly diseases like Ebola and the avian flu are only one flight away. The U.S. government must start taking preparedness seriously.

Washington nearly killed the U.N. anti-TB effort, but it didn't need to. The U.N. will do that itself.

A huge vaccine scandal hits at Beijing's most vulnerable point: children's safety.

The world thought it had fought the HIV virus to a stalemate—but its strategy was flawed in ways that are only now becoming clear.

With escalating drug prices and growing vaccine paranoia, American populism is taking down the edifice of global public health.

As populations age, countries will need ever more primary health workers and aides — jobs robots will never do well. So why do we treat these workers so badly?

Drug-resistant diseases are on the rise. Only a global effort to prevent overuse of antibiotics can halt the threat.

Amid the latest Ebola outbreak, the Trump administration is handing leadership to Angela Merkel — and she's not out to protect American interests.

As the monsoon season looms, hundreds of thousands of refugees are living in overcrowded Bangladeshi refugee camps at risk of an imminent cholera outbreak.

As a new outbreak surfaces in Africa, the only possible motive for ending America's anti-Ebola program is that Barack Obama started it.

Everyone in the West, royalty or not, gets better maternal health care than parents in the United States.

Critics of overseas development assistance say it's a waste. The evidence shows that investments in public health enhance stability and security.

The Centers for Disease Control will soon be run by a military doctor with a long history of pushing discriminatory AIDS policies.

Xi Jinping should be promoting evidence-based medicine, not quackery.

There’s a sudden outbreak of the nasty, fast-spreading norovirus — right near South Korea’s Olympic Village

How WHO and other international agencies aid Assad’s war against Syria’s civilians.

The Islamic Republic's anti-smoking campaign is yet another example of the government's shaky control over its population.

Are deep-pocketed medical tourists the cause of, or solution to, India's health care problems?

While the Trump administration praises its progress on the AIDS fight, health campaigners warn they are making the fight that much harder.