Women comprise more than half the population of the nation's cities, are three times as likely as their male counterparts to live alone after the age of 65, and are primary caregivers for their families at all ages and stages of life. The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, with the...
In an opinion piece, Newsweek reporter Sarah Kliff examines abortion-rights supporters' efforts to lessen stigma surrounding the procedure by focusing on women's personal abortion stories. "In the nearly four decades since Roe v. Wade, in magazines and blogs, in tweets and T-shirts, thousands of...
A bill (HB 12) recently approved by the Utah Legislature that would permit criminal charges against women who seek an illegal abortion "may have opened a loophole" allowing women to be charged with murder if they experience a miscarriage because of "reckless behavior," ABC News reports. The bill...
The BBC examines the recent efforts by microfinance institutions (MFIs) to "provide a credit lifeline to millions of deprived people in some of the poorest countries of the world," especially women. The piece describes the work of the non-profit Women's World Banking (WWB), which, together with...
The Los Angeles Times on Wednesday examined an abortion debate between two professors that has been held at the University of California-Berkeley every semester for the past 10 years. According to the Times, "in a sea of rancor" surrounding abortion rights, the "two-hour debates are civilized...
Several studies are examining whether periodic use of antiretroviral drugs in various forms -- including pills and vaginal or rectal gels -- can prevent HIV transmission during high-risk sexual encounters, according to researchers at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic...
Congressional Quarterly examines concerns among health advocates and international development experts about what President Obama's FY 2011 budget request might mean to U.S. commitments to particular diseases abroad, such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. According to CQ, Obama's...
The New York Times examines the WHO's role as a "clearinghouse" for getting the H1N1 (swine flu) vaccine to lower income nations. Though H1N1 has died down in North America and many wealthier nations "are trying to get rid of their [vaccine] surpluses," the virus continues to circulate in...
The Los Angeles Times reports on how health workers in the Mississippi Delta region of the U.S. are hoping to mimic Iran's success in reducing infant mortality by recreating the country's low-cost rural healthcare delivery system in their own backyard. "Mississippi ranks at or near the bottom of...
The Los Angeles Times reports on how health workers in the Mississippi Delta region of the U.S. are hoping to mimic Iran's success in reducing infant mortality by recreating the country's low-cost rural healthcare delivery system in their own backyard. "Mississippi ranks at or near the bottom of...
The Los Angeles Times reports on how health workers in the Mississippi Delta region of the U.S. are hoping to mimic Iran's success in reducing infant mortality by recreating the country's low-cost rural healthcare delivery system in their own backyard. "Mississippi ranks at or near the bottom of...
The Los Angeles Times reports on how health workers in the Mississippi Delta region of the U.S. are hoping to mimic Iran's success in reducing infant mortality by recreating the country's low-cost rural healthcare delivery system in their own backyard. "Mississippi ranks at or near the bottom of...
The Los Angeles Times reports on how health workers in the Mississippi Delta region of the U.S. are hoping to mimic Iran's success in reducing infant mortality by recreating the country's low-cost rural healthcare delivery system in their own backyard. "Mississippi ranks at or near the bottom of...
The Los Angeles Times reports on how health workers in the Mississippi Delta region of the U.S. are hoping to mimic Iran's success in reducing infant mortality by recreating the country's low-cost rural healthcare delivery system in their own backyard. "Mississippi ranks at or near the bottom of...
"Global health projections leave little doubt that chronic diseases are rapidly overtaking infectious diseases, such as malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis (TB), as the world's biggest killers - a shift emphasized by a recent World Health Organization (WHO) report on global health risks," Reuters...
The New York Times explores efforts across the U.S. to craft and implement affordable solutions to infrastructure problems around the world. It also looks at programs geared toward supporting the work of local entrepreneurs to build solutions to the problems on the ground. "Containers to...
The Independent examines the expansion of human diseases that originated in animals. "At least 45 diseases that have passed from animals to humans have been reported to U.N. agencies in the last two decades, with the number expected to escalate in the coming years," the Independent writes...
The Associated Press reports on how the misuse of drugs worldwide has contributed to drug-resistant diseases in a series of articles following a six-month investigation by the news service. The AP examines growing resistance to HIV drugs: "Ten years ago, between 1 percent and 5...
The Associated Press reports on how the misuse of drugs worldwide has contributed to drug-resistant diseases in a series of articles following a six-month investigation by the news service. The AP examines growing resistance to HIV drugs: "Ten years ago, between 1 percent and 5...
Although Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley (D) and state Sen. Scott Brown (R) -- who are vying for the state's U.S. Senate seat -- both say they support Roe v. Wade, abortion-rights groups are backing Coakley, while an antiabortion-rights group has sided with Brown, the Boston Globe...