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But there are always moments of great progress and hope. For example, the creation of the Global Fund for AIDS, TB, and ...

Coming off the deadly pandemic, health care has taken center stage as a global issue. While the U.S. is facing health care struggles that include increased maternal mortality and lower life expectancy ...

The World Economic Forum draws a fair amount of criticism. To some, the annual conference – held amid a gorgeous setting in Davos, Switzerland – is a pointless gathering of plutocrats and politicos ...

A new series in The Lancet led by a UC Berkeley professor equips policymakers and clinicians with a toolkit to break out of silos and make more informed health decisions. Can doctors in California ...

A quiet paradox is unfolding in health care. Around the world, governments are centralizing health systems—consolidating hospitals, budgets, data and decision-making—at the very moment when the most ...

In the 1980s, the late pope encouraged Dr. Robert Walley, a Catholic obstetrician and gynecologist who died in 2020, to provide life-affirming health care to women in need. Walley went on to found ...

April 7 is World Health Day, an annual celebration to draw attention to the importance of health. In honor of the occasion, Santiam Hospital and Clinics shares six ways anyone can take control of ...

Soda was a rare treat when Richmond Aryeetey was growing up in Ghana in the 1980s. "You were likely to see soda in the house maybe on festive occasions" – like Christmas, he says. Now, he says, soda ...

CommentaryAttorney Analysis from Westlaw Today, a part of Thomson Reuters. With the advent of a second Trump administration and majority conservative Congress and Supreme Court, it is unclear whether ...