Health & Sport

No one likes surprises – especially the medical community. But there was alarm across health organizations around the world in 2003 when t

Dariush Mozaffarian is Dean of the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, and the Jean Mayer Chair and Professor of Nutrit

Play, nutrition and overall investment in our kids is critical. First Lady Michelle Obama acknowledges that there will be a price tag for keeping children active. She says “We should figure out how much that costs and then pay for it. Period."

Buried among the 169 targets contained in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was the vital pledge to eliminate “preventable child deaths” by 2030. It is a cause for our generation.

I was a young medical officer working at the Emergency Unit of the Ola During Children’s Hospital in Sierra Leone when I advised the mother of a child with severe malaria to tell a blatant lie.

Five years on, cholera has killed nearly 9,000 Haitians. More than 730,000 people have been infected. It is the worst outbreak of the disease, globally, in modern history.