Low-Resource Healthcare Pearls

Malaria, schistosomiasis, ascariasis, Chagas disease, Dengue fever. As a young physician, I was fascinated with these classic tropical diseases. Part

  Low-resource, cross-cultural healthcare will test your skills to the extreme. Begin by eliminating the options of comprehensive laboratory testing,

  Maria, the seven-year-old girl in this photo, presents to you at the Clinical Evangelica Morava on the remote western

  What is the most dangerous day in a person’s entire life? Perhaps the one when a teenager receives his

  Malnutrition especially impacts pregnant women around the globe. The challenges of food security, poverty, anemia, malnutrition, low birth weight, and

  The five-year-old child in this photo presents to your health center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. History

  One person out of three around the globe lives in a community with no access to a general surgeon.

Introducing Peter Hotez, my friend and today’s best known proponent of anti-poverty vaccines. Peter is an accomplished scientist and pediatric

Tragedy aptly describes the emotions surrounding the death of a pregnant woman. Until recently, grave markers in the United States