News and Stories
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PIH Clinician Infected with Ebola Upgraded to Fair Condition
The National Institutes of Health upgraded the clinical status of the PIH clinician infected with Ebola virus disease from serious to fair condition today.
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NIH Upgrades Status of PIH Clinician Infected with Ebola
The National Institutes of Health changed the clinical status of the PIH clinician infected with Ebola virus disease from critical to serious condition today.
March 26, 2015
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Haiti: Mosaics to Bring Inspiration, Hope to Rehab Patients
Mosaic artist Laurel True, members of the Mirebalais Mosaic Collective, and University Hospital staff and patients collaborated to design, create, and install mosaics throughout the new Center of Excellence in Rehab and Education in Mirebalais, Haiti.The project was made possible through a successful Kickstarter campaign.
March 26, 2015
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Peru: Study Aims to Reveal How TB Spreads
Scientists have long debated the dynamics of how tuberculosis spreads in people, including whether MDR-TB is as likely to spread as drug-sensitive TB. Epidemiologists behind the Peru study, which followed 18,500 people for several years, hope that answering this question will better equip public health professionals to stop tuberculosis in all its forms.
March 24, 2015
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Dying of Tuberculosis in the 21st Century
Ebola is the tip of a global health crisis: a crisis in our collective ability to deliver the essentials of modern medicine to those who need help the most. Few diseases illustrate the ongoing nature of this crisis better than tuberculosis, a highly transmissible airborne infection that kills more than 1.5 million people every year.
March 23, 2015
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Malawi Floods: Update from Joe Lusaka
I decided to move to Chikwawa in order to alleviate the disease burden unleashed by the floods, and to bring us closer to making real the human right to health care.
March 20, 2015
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We stay
We make long-term commitments to the communities we serve. “I came up from under the building,” says Shelove Julmiste, remembering her escape from the rubble of a collapsed six-story building, “and that’s when I realized my foot was crushed.”
March 19, 2015
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We build health systems
We work closely with national governments and other partners to improve and expand health services. Muhamed Kallon, 19, is an Ebola survivor. Last September, he was admitted to an Ebola treatment unit in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he was closely supervised by health workers and received rehydration therapy. After 10 days, Kallon was well enough to return home.
March 19, 2015
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We make house calls
We visit patients in their homes to deliver medication and guide them through treatment. "I’m just doing my job. This is what it takes.” Rebecca Tsosie drives down the dusty roads of Crystal, New Mexico, to see her first patient of the day. An ID card—her photo under the official seal of the Navajo Nation government—swings from the rearview mirror of her truck.
March 19, 2015
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We go
We travel to remote places where health care options are limited or barely exist. Beyond Russia’s Ural Mountains, in the dense forests of southwestern Siberia, Tomsk has historically been a destination for exiles. Even now, many people still live on the fringes of society.
March 19, 2015