Noncommunicable Diseases

Blazing Injustice: The Hidden Crisis of Burn Injuries

Richard Besser, MD, President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Spreading the Health

A DNA sculpture in deCODE Genetics Reykjavik headquarters. The company says it has all the information needed to accurately identify almost every single BRCA mutation carrier in Iceland.

The Right Not to Know: When Ignorance is Bliss but Deadly

Chris Bombardier (right), a winner of the 2018 Untold Global Health Stories contest, visiting a hospital on a trip to Nepal

The Winners of the 2018 Untold Global Heath Story Contest, Revealed!

Tom Frieden and WHO Director-General Tedros

Tom Frieden: Proposed CDC Cuts Would Mean More Cancer, Heart Disease and Stroke

A young woman protests tobacco with face paint during a campaign to prevent cigarette smoking in India.

Women: Stand Up to Big Tobacco

Urmila Devi Poddar stands beside her husband Ladayan Poddar, who accidentally touched a live wire and suffered burns so severe that his right arm had to be amputated.

Images of Blazing Injustice: Nepal's Burn Survivors

A 15-year-old child laborer, smokes a bidi (leaf-rolled tobacco cigar) while working in a brick factory at Ghanashyampur village in Murshidabad, 350 km north of Kolkata, India.

Powering Up to Fight Tobacco

Illustration of the Baltimore skyline by mauromod (iStock)

Urban Innovation

Crowded cows

Factory Farms Feed 3 Top Health Threats

Haiti and Women's Cancers: Barriers and Solutions

His Excellency the President Lt. Gen. Dr. Seretse Khama Ian Khama of the Republic of Botswana joined the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation and the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative at Texas Children’s Hospital (BIPAI) on Tuesday, February 21 in

A $100 Million Boost for Pediatric Cancer Care in Africa