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PODCAST: Can Tom Frieden Save 100 Million Lives?

Dr. Tom Frieden lead the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2009 to 2017. He now has a new role: President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies. And in this role he...

This Will Be the Most Deadly Disease of 2017. (And It’s Not What You Would Expect)

The biggest killer disease in 2017 isn’t going to be HIV. Not Ebola, either. Or Zika or pandemic influenza, or even drug-resistant tuberculosis. The disease that will kill the most people in 2017 will be a disease we hardly ever...

Getting Cancer on the Global Health Agenda

Ed note. This is a guest post from Dr. Dr. Anees B. Chagpar, Associate Professor of Surgery at Yale University, the Assistant Director for Global Oncology at Yale Cancer Center, and the Director of the Breast Center — Smilow Cancer Hospital...

Map of the Day: Where Booze Kills

Alcohol related illness and death are a serious public health concern.

The Danger of Diabetes

New gene research shows people with certain backgrounds may be more suseptable

Chart of the Day: The Coming Cancer Tsunami

Cancer is a leading cause of death globally. According to the WHO, about 8 million people died from cancers last year. That figure is poised to rise — and dramatically so. In 2012, there were an estimated 14 million cancer...