Obesity and mental health: Addressing stigma and misconceptions
Obesity is one of the most urgent global health challenges of the 21st century. Prevalence rates have reached pandemic proportions,...
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Dr. Nanthalile Mugala - Zambia and Dr. Muyiwa Tegbe - United States
- 5 min
Response to mental health crisis needs to start with primary health care
Primary health care (PHC) brings comprehensive health care closer to people and a PHC provider is oftentimes the first health point of...
Jeff Cyr — Canada
- 5 min
Addressing diabetes through traditional Indigenous ways: listen, learn, act
The number of people with type 2 diabetes continues to expand to record levels globally, and Indigenous peoples have some of the highest...
Ann-Lise Mikolajczak & Herb Riband - Switzerland
- 6 min
The promise of digital health innovations for people living with diabetes
The number of people living with diabetes (PLWDs) has quadrupled in the last 40 years, adding to the pressures on health systems,...
Jeremiah Mwangi - Switzerland
- 4 min
Ending Rheumatic Heart Disease is achievable if we put our hearts and minds to it
Preventable, yet persistent, Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) is the most commonly acquired heart disease in people under 25 years of age....
Norman Coleman & Donna O’Brien - United States
- 5 min
A global health convergence for approaching infectious and noncommunicable diseases
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the threat that sudden stresses pose to health resources and supply chains in all countries,...
Becky McCall - United Kingdom & Bob Kirsch - United States
- 9 min
Landmark discoveries with staggering impact
As long ago as 550 BC, Chinese philosopher Confucius told us to “study the past if you would define the future.” In that spirit FORESIGHT...
Verah Okeyo - Kenya
- 8 min
Kenya shines light on mental health crisis sweeping Africa
A new commitment by Kenya’s leaders helped move mental illness onto the health agenda, yet political will was only the beginning of the...
Becky McCall — United Kingdom
- 9 min
Integrated health care has to happen
The covid-19 pandemic has illustrated how chances of recovery from a severe infectious disease are strongly influenced by the presence,...
James Anderson - United Kingdom
- 5 min
Overcoming key barriers to quality diabetes care around the world
Innovations in diabetes treatment and management have made enormous contributions to global health over the past 100 years, but there are...
Andrea Chipman — United Kingdom
- 2 min
On the steps of recovery
Exploring landmark medical discoveries, and the challenges of ensuring fair and equitable access to their impact. Recovery builds...
dmaccounts
- 1 min
Increasing risk factors hurt economic growth
Better prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) could avert millions of years of lost productivity. Increasing risk factors cause...
Paul Adepoju — Nigeria
- 8 min
Make the link between chronic disease and economic output
As COVID-19 pandemic-priorities escalated, care of non-communicable diseases got pushed aside, particularly in less well off countries....
Marcella McCarthy - United States
- 8 min
Treatment by video is here to stay thanks to the pandemic
It took a rampant, highly infectious and deadly virus to pluck delivery of medical treatment out of the past and into the modern world of...
Jo Waters — United Kingdom
- 13 min
Amazing advances in medicines hold huge promise for a better world
The past century has been one of enormous progress in the understanding of human pathology and treatment of disease. We are now looking...
Andrea Chipman — United Kingdom
- 2 min
Introduction: Medicines that changed the world
As the world continues to undergo one of the biggest healthcare upheavals in a generation, it seems to be an appropriate time to look...
Swagata Yadavar — India
- 8 min
Fake drugs and how to protect the vulnerable
With non-communicable diseases increasingly becoming a major health issue for poorer and wealthier countries alike, securing access to...
Anne Stake - United States of America
- 5 min
To manage syndemics think like an octopus
In the age of syndemics, it is time to think differently. We need more global health organisations to focus their energy outside the...
Devang Vussonj & Heri Marwa — Tanzania
- 5 min
Community health workers key to cost-effective prevention
Already strained healthcare systems further burdened by the Covid-19 pandemic are struggling to pay sufficient attention to NCDs, the...
Teofilo O.L. San Luis Jr. - Philippines
- 4 min
The thyroid, the organ below the radar
Thyroid disorders (TDs) rarely get the publicity of more well-known disease groups, but can lead to tragic consequences, especially in...
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