MALNUTRITION, MALARIA and the MYCOBACTERIUM

This notice provides an update of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) poverty guidelines to account for last calendar year...

January 25, 2011 : Zehra Siddiqui The Economist reports on the Census Bureau's recent publishing of an estimate of poverty in the US ...

Ronald Bailey : January 26, 2011 Laurence Chandy and Geoffrey Gertz, two researchers at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, have p...

ISLAMABAD: The UK chief economist and world leading specialist Professor Alan Winters on Thursday stressed the inextricable link between eco...

January 25, 2011 Poverty among Canada's Aboriginal Peoples is an enormous drag on the country's economy, says the former chief of ...

January 28, 2011 — Michael Owen  Photo: Alia Qotb and husband Ahmed Gaballah have spent decades living atop a building in Cairo. Credit: A...

28 Jan 2011 Six months after the 2010 Pakistan monsoon floods hit, UNICEF and its partners face another huge challenge following new survey ...

Jan 30, 2011, NAGPUR: The Korku and Gond tribals, whose staple food until a few years back was just jowar and matar dal, now grow other cro...

Lusekelo Philemon : 25th January 2011 The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (Gain) and New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepa...

Patrick Kolsteren: pkolsteren@itg.be : 323-467-6389: Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp The European Commission has given the green l...

David Musyoka Oxfam says drought worsens civil war crisis in Somalia. More than two million people are dependent on humanitarian aid fo...

VOA News January 26, 2011  Photo: REUTERS Two-year-old Hawal drinks water in a relief camp for flood victims in Thatta, some 100 km from K...

 Gopalan T on January 26, 2011 US scientists could be closer to developing a vaccine that fights both the naturally plague and the bacteria...

New Delhi, Jan 23 (IANS) Further research needs to be done to come up with an antidote to the Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) that...

BettyRubin January 28, 2011 ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Centers for Disease Control calls it a “national resource.” For Alaskans, the new Arcti...

There is an ongoing battle in the "war on terror" that remains mostly unseen to the public -- a race between scientists working t...

Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is defending its retention of smallpox stocks. The United States ...

Caitlin Dickson  Jan 28 2011 WASHINGTON, DC – What if all that charitable money isn't going to the right people? That's the peren...

JOHANNESBURG, 28 January 2011 (IRIN) - Don't impose export restrictions, check up on food inventories, draw up a poverty map - these ar...

 Photo: Back Pack Health Worker Team Most villages lack basic healthcare YANGON, 28 January 2011 (IRIN) - Myanmar is one of 57 countrie...