The TIME Global Health Blog

Blog on Hiatus

Christine Gorman — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:04:30 -0500

The Time Global Health blog is going on hiatus. It's been a privilege bringing you the latest international health news and analysis for the past year. I'm going to be working on some new projects in global health. See you...

Suspected Bird Flu Case in Nigeria

Christine Gorman — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:36:19 -0500

It's worrisome that a Nigerian woman who died recently has tested positive for infection with H5N1 or the bird flu virus. But I'm still waiting to hear confirmation from the World Health Organization. We won't learn anything that's really significant--such...

What Makes a Hospital?

Christine Gorman — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:08:49 -0500

Just how basic are the basic health care needs of men, women and children in the poorest parts of the world? It's not enough simply to have access to medicine. You have to have the doctors and nurses who can...

Bio Threats Go Both Ways

Simon Robinson — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:48:02 -0500

Perhaps it's books and movies like the Hot Zone, which showed hemorrhagic fever spreading from central Africa to the West, but there's long been a perception that bio threats begin in the developing world and mostly threaten the rich parts...

Iraqibacter Bug Threatens Wounded Troops

Christine Gorman — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:52:38 -0500

Florence Nightingale could have predicted this. A growing number of antibiotic-resistant germs are turning up in the war wounds of U.S. combat troops in Iraq. Along with the usual drug-resistant staph and strep varieties, there is now a major hospital-bred...

Syphilis Makes a Comeback in China

Christine Gorman — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:09:24 -0500

Syphilis cases have risen 28-fold in China from 1993 to 2005. That extraordinarily fast increase is likely to fuel the burgeoning AIDS epidemic as well, according to a study in this week's Lancet. An aggressive public health campaign nearly wiped...

Malaria Outbreak in Jamaica

Christine Gorman — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:52:01 -0500

Planning a trip to Jamaica to escape the winter blues? Be sure to bring along your anti-malaria pills. Hundreds of people in the capital city of Kingston have been diagnosed with the mosquito-borne illness. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control...

Med 2.0 at the New England Journal

Christine Gorman — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:46:12 -0500

I wonder if I hit a nerve with all those positive things I said about PloS? Kent Anderson of the New England Journal of Medicine called to let me know that the NEJM’s content has been available for free on...

How Not to Fight Tuberculosis

Christine Gorman — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:13:26 -0500

Do we have to turn TB into a terrorist threat to give it the attention it deserves? Police in Durham, North Carolina jailed a man with an active case of tuberculosis who refused to take his anti-TB drugs. Everyone at...

Name That Life Saver!

Christine Gorman — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:01:00 -0500

Forget Myspace. You should see what the Web 2.0 revolution is doing to medical journals. There’s a contest to name the most important medical advance since 1840 over at the venerable British Medical Journal. (Results to be posted on Jan....