Today, the health workforce lacks at least 7.2 million workers. The World Health Organization identifies several causes for this shortage of staff. First, the current workforce is too old, and too few of the younger generations are entering it as the current staff retires or leaves for better paying jobs. Second, the migration of health […]
The recent development of the “superbug” poses a new global health challenge this year. In the summer of 2016, a women returned home to Nevada with a strange bacterial infection that she acquired while in India. Her doctors end up prescribing her a total of 26 different antibiotics, encompassing all of the ones available today, […]
It is no surprise that the Ebola outbreak devastated many lives and communities in West Africa, but it’s been over a year since the Ebola outbreak made mainstream media headlines. That must mean the Ebola virus no longer poses a threat to the countries in West Africa, right? According to an article recently published in […]