Over eight years to 2017, a Unicef report found, nearly 170 million children worldwide failed to receive the first of two doses.
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Over 20 Million Children a Year Miss Out on First Dose of Measles Vaccine
Over eight years to 2017, a Unicef report found, nearly 170 million children worldwide failed to receive the first of two doses.
Dr. David Hamburg, Leader in Conflict Resolution, Dies at 93
As a behavioral scientist and president of the Carnegie Corporation, he took on policy issues that bring about “hatred and violence and ignorance.”
Global Health: New York City Is Requiring Vaccinations Against Measles. Can Officials Do That?
Mandatory vaccination is rare, but it has been done — and upheld by the courts. While judges have allowed health officials to fine citizens for refusing, forced vaccinations are highly unusual.
Times Insider: Candida Auris: The Fungus Nobody Wants to Talk About
The medical community is usually eager to discuss public health issues. But the rise in drug-resistant microbes is cloaked in chronic secrecy.
‘It Is Unspeakable’: How Maduro Used Cuban Doctors to Coerce Venezuela Voters
President Nicolás Maduro sent doctors door-to-door to warn the ill and elderly that care would be cut off unless they voted for the governing party, said 16 Cuban physicians who worked in Venezuela.
Ireland Diagnosed Record Number of H.I.V. Infections in 2018, Health Data Suggests
As government campaigns have reduced transmission through drug use, sex has become a more common route for infection. Some Irish activists attributed the increase to poor sex health education.
Trilobites: Searching Tardigrades for Lifesaving Secrets
Researchers are drawing inspiration from the proteins that they think let hearty water bears cheat time by decelerating their biology.
China Investigates Reports of H.I.V.-Tainted Blood Plasma Treatment
Authorities in China have ordered an emergency recall of more than 12,000 units of a blood plasma product, potentially the latest scandal to undermine public trust in the nation’s health care system.
The New Health Care: Giant Strides in World Health, but It Could Be So Much Better
Americans tend to overestimate the problems in poorer nations.