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A First Step to Fairer Drug Prices for Young Americans

A First Step to Fairer Drug Prices for Young Americans

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U.S drugs have been historically more expensive, but the Inflation Reduction Act signals a shift toward fairer prices

Rwanda’s Health-Care Success Holds Lessons for Others

Rwanda’s Health-Care Success Holds Lessons for Others

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Three takeaways for other low-income countries

Back to Basics After COVID-19

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Investing in Primary Care Now Will Prepare the U.S. for the Next Pandemic

Addressing pandemic preparedness after COVID-19 will require going deeper than the surface. Here a worker sanitizes surfaces inside the Inox Leisure movie theatre in Mumbai, India, October 13, 2020. The photo is striking, showing a worker spraying disinfectant wearing a blue suit descending down a theater staircase where all the seats and carpet are bright red. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni

Who Gets What and Why?

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Countries need informed decision-making through health technology assessment to allocate resources during the pandemic

People at a coronavirus testing center on July 2, 2020 in Mugda Medical College in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where half of the medical equipment in public health facilities goes unused according to the authors. The photo shows a crowd of people wearing masks waiting on line in chairs while a health worker in full protective gear walks beside them. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

Falling Through the Cracks: COVID-19 and the Rise of Maternal Deaths in Africa

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Africa’s unified pandemic response has saved lives, but reduced access to routine services puts women’s health in danger

A woman walks past a graffiti promoting the fight against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya, on May 22, 2020. This is a striking photo of a woman in a blue dress wearing a facemask walking past a peach-colored wall with a graffiti of the Earth, also wearing a facemask, with bloodshot eyes and crying. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

In Thailand, Noncitizen Health Matters

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National progress on migrant health is expansive, effective, and has helped Thailand avoid the worst of the coronavirus

A girl from a migrant worker family that came to Thailand from Myanmar and lost their jobs due to COVID-19, lines up for free food in Bangkok, Thailand, on April 23, 2020. The photo shows a small girl wearing a facemask looking at the camera. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

The WHO's Unheralded Role in Surgery

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Why does the WHO matter? Its global health coordination makes surgical care more affordable and effective for everyone

People waiting for treatment at a hospital after undergoing cataract removals from a free but shoddy eye surgery camp that caused them to lose their vision—in Amritsar, India, on December 5, 2014. The photo shows several people sitting on hospital beds. One man in the foreground is wearing dark glasses. REUTERS/Munish Sharma

Afraid to Die, Afraid to Go to the Clinic

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Amplifying tuberculosis survivor perspectives to encourage men to seek care for COVID-19 in South Africa and elsewhere

Goodman Makanda, who's involved in efforts to make tuberculosis and COVID-19 testing more acceptable and accessible for South African men, in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa, on March 24th 2019. The photo shows a man sitting in a clinic with various monitors and equipment. An eye exam is visible on the wall. MSF/Jelle Krings

A New Way to Drive COVID-19 Vaccine Development

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How a "benefit-based advance market commitment" could build on existing Gavi COVAX and EU Joint Procurement initiatives

A woman holds a small bottle labeled with a "Vaccine COVID-19" sticker and a medical syringe in this illustration taken on April 10, 2020, in Bosnia. The photo shows a woman holding a small vial to her face. She is wearing a mask and gloves and the vial reads, COVID-19. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

Systemic Racism in Mammogram Guidelines

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Breaking down U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations in the COVID-19 pandemic

Wigs and head scarves for patients with breast cancer are seen on mannequins at a center run by the "Reto" Group for Full Recovery of Breast Cancer in Mexico City October 18, 2012. The photo shows a room with mannequin heads and wigs. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

Tackling Cancer Through Universal Health Coverage

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Turning the tide through prevention, treatment, and other cancer control interventions depends on strong health systems

People sit in a chemotherapy ward while undergoing treatment for cancer at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana on April 24, 2012. Most of Africa's 2,000 languages have no word for cancer. Picture shows two people in comfortable chairs from the chest down. at least one of them has an IV in her arm, presumably an infusion of chemo meds. REUTERS/Olivier Asselin

“Ordinary Love” and Extraordinary Compassion

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New film starring Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville depicts the gloomy, gray uncertainty of modern breast cancer treatment

Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville give outstanding performances in the new film ORDINARY LOVE, from Bleecker Street, and they are helped by a powerful, semi-autobiographical script by Owen McCafferty. Image is of the two actors sitting together and smiling in a hospital waiting room. Credit: Aidan Monaghan/Bleecker Street