Health & Fitness | Nutrition-supplements

Stories in the mainstream press about sub-Saharan Africa tend to follow a pretty grim litany of poverty, corruption, violence and despair. (The photos are often even worse.) So I hereby submit for your perusal An African Miracle, which is a...

Apologies for the lack of posts in recent weeks. I'm just settling into India and will start posting from here more regularly. First, though, a couple of last things from Africa. If you haven't seen Christine's piece An African Miracle...

It's easy to forget, but the first country to report avian cases of H5N1 avian flu during the serious winter 2003 outbreak was not Vietnam or China or Thailand, but modern South Korea. Unlike many of their regional neighbors, who...

In most countries a 30% increase in HIV/AIDS cases would be a cause for alarm. But in China—where new cases jumped by 183,733 year to year from Oct. 31, according to the Ministry of Health—it's a sign that the government...

Finally, finally, we have a report that highlights successful homegrown solutions to some of the healthcare problems facing the 46 countries that are found in sub-Saharan Africa. It's long been my belief that too much reporting on health issues in...