Staff / TruthdigNov 12, 2009
China's authoritarianism has apparently helped the country keep a lid on the global H1N1 pandemic. Similarly populated India has experienced nearly 17 times as many deaths from the disease. The United States, with less than a quarter of China's population, has recorded about 133 times as many deaths. (continued) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 12, 2009
It's been 40 years since we've had a flu pandemic on our hands, but after roughly 30,000 swine flu cases spread across multiple regions of the world, the WHO held an emergency meeting and took the plunge. Try not to feel alarmed. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigMay 5, 2009
This will come as no surprise to Ron Paul (remember him?), but it looks like swine flu may be no worse than your garden-variety influenza virus, according to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 30, 2009
With news of the first swine flu death outside of Mexico (U.S.) and the first infection of a patient with no connection to Mexico (Spain), the World Health Organization has reclassified the health scare one level short of a full pandemic and has urged governments to initiate emergency measures. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 1, 2008
World AIDS Day turns 20 today, and while we still don't have a vaccine, researchers continue to make lifesaving breakthroughs. A team at the World Health Organization in Geneva recently came up with a "thought experiment" that, according to a mathematical model, could end the AIDS epidemic in Africa in only a decade. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 3, 2008
Every year about a million HIV patients globally are given potentially life-saving treatments, while about 2 1/2 times that number are infected. On top of that, the vast majority of HIV-positive people around the world don't know they're infected. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 10, 2008
The tragic task of tallying the number of Iraqis who have been killed in the war has been attempted by various parties with vastly different results, largely because of built-in logistical issues, and now the WHO's health ministry has released its own figures while acknowledging the impossibility of precision. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 7, 2006
Check out the new movie that The New York Times calls "a prosecutorial examination of the role of oil companies, the automobile industry and the Bush administration (them again) in stymieing the development of emission-free electric vehicles." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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