By Tendai Maphosa London 11 January 2008 A new study reveals that more African doctors and nurses are working abroad than at home, which it says is contributing to the worsening shortage of health care professionals in Africa. From London, Tendai Map...
By Carol Pearson Washington, D.C. 05 July 2007 An American man who traveled internationally with tuberculosis - despite instructions not to - has a new diagnosis and is not as sick as government doctors initially said he was. As VOA's Carol Pearson r...
By Carol Pearson Washington 22 May 2007 Doctors in the United States are seeing more infections from parasites normally found in developing countries. These infections could be prevented, contained or cured, but the problem is, many American doctors...
By Chad Bouchard Yogyakarta 08 March 2007 Forensic doctors are struggling to identify the bodies of at least 21 people killed when an Indonesian airplane skidded off the runway and exploded Wednesday. As Chad Bouchard reports from Yogyakarta, family...
By Carol Pearson Washington, DC 05 January 2007 watch Lung Cancer Gene report Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer in the world. It claims the lives of almost three million people a year. This cancer is hard to cure, but clues about the most effectiv...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 30 November 2006 On the eve of World AIDS Day, Kenyan doctors and activists are calling on the Kenyan government to declare tuberculosis a national disaster and enact special legislation to deal with the highly contagious d...
By Saba Shah Khan, John Featherly Washington, D.C. 24 November 2006 watch Foreign Doctor report Recent studies suggest the United States health care system will soon experience a shortage of doctors and medical professionals. This is leading to incr...
By Carol Pearson Washington, DC 22 November 2006 watch Kidney Transplant report Five living donors have given five desperately ill people a kidney and a new life. None of the donors knew the recipients. And it was not until nearly a week after the s...
By Kane Farabaugh New York City 06 October 2006 watch Doctor Without Border Makeshift refugee camp in Brooklyn, NY Doctors Without Borders, also known as Medicines Sans Frontieres, or MSF, is taking its work on the road - in the United States. The n...
By Stephanie Ho Washington 24 August 2006 The MacArthur Foundation, better known for offering so-called genius grants each year to individuals, will now recognize small non-profit organizations. The groups are diverse and are in different countries,...