2nd June 2016
A former oil tanker with 700 doctors, 5,000 units of blood and 12 operating rooms, this ship is as well-equipped as a large hospital The sheer size of the USNS Comfort and its sister ship, the Mercy is impressive: they are as high ...
25th April 2016
When a 16-year-old aid worker returned from Uganda feeling tired and ill, it took days to diagnose malaria and begin urgent treatment. The delay almost cost him his life. Feeling tired after a long-haul flight is what you can expect. ...
20th April 2016
In the small island nation of Sri Lanka, a midwifery training program founded in the 1880s by a revered native entrepreneur has evolved into a community health program that has taken maternal and infant mortality rates close to rich-country levels, ...
6th April 2016
It’s almost as if the World Health Organization had Kyle Jacques Rose in mind when deciding to make “Beat Diabetes” its 2016 World Health Day theme. Not only does Kyle understand what it’s like to ride the diabetes roller ...
31st March 2016
A nine-year-old girl from Bangladesh needs a €5,000 heart operation but her family’s income is just €70 per month. Now a charity is stepping in to provide less-invasive surgery – for free Fima has a hole in her heart. It causes palpitations ...
23rd March 2016
TB kills three people per second. In small towns like Firozabad, the dreaded lung disease is a hazard of daily life – but there is reason for hope The Indian town of Firozabad hosts a network of small family business making ...
2nd March 2016
If you have fever, rash, joint pain, headache and fatigue, it could be flu, dengue fever or chikungunya. Or it could be Zika virus. The trouble is it can take weeks to find out for sure. For pregnant women in ...
25th February 2016
A necklace that contains a computer chip is keeping track of immunization records of young children in India. When linked to a mobile application, health care workers seeing patients in remote villages in India can access real-time data to help ...
9th February 2016
Have you ever taken antibiotics for a viral infection? Every time we misuse antibiotics we take another step backwards – undoing decades of medical progress and risking the lives of seriously ill people in our communities. Meet Sharon Brennan. Sharon has ...
12th January 2016
The stigma and misunderstanding that surround mental illness in developing countries leads to humiliation and hardship. Maurilia’s family had tied a rope around her neck to restrain her after a series of aggressive outbursts. Once a healthy and active ...