Globally, injuries kill over 6 million people a year. Surviving catastrophic injuries like accidents or burns can mean a lifetime of pain and disfigurement. Skilled plastic surgeons can make an enormous difference in quality of life, but there is a global shortage. The…
The end is nigh for the Decade of Action for Road Safety, and some 3,700 people are still dying on the world’s roads every day. While wealthy nations have made considerable progress, no low-income country saw a reduction in road traffic deaths from 2013-2016, notes a…
An international accord overseeing safety in Bangladesh’s garment industry may cede control to the government pending a Supreme Court ruling next week. The accord was installed after the catastrophic 2013 Rana Plaza collapse that killed over 1,100 people. Under its watch…
For the first time in America, dying of an opioid overdose is more likely than dying in a vehicle crash, according to a National Safety Council report. Surging overdose deaths are part of an unsettling upward trend in preventable, unintentional injury in the past 15 years…
HOUSTON – It’s a sad axiom of preparedness: Disasters are great teachers. Example: After Tropical Storm Allison swamped the city of Houston with nearly 3 feet of rain in 2001, hospitals in the city lost power because electrical equipment and backup generators were in…
The WHO is calling for a halt to fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s northeast region to make room for Ebola response teams. The country’s latest outbreak has spread to a new province from the conflict-ridden North Kivu province—home to 1 million internally…
The White House wants to slash the ranks of the uniformed public health corps by 40%—reducing the corps of 6500 doctors, nurses, engineers and others to 4000. The administration would replace members of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps with civilians who…
The White House wants to slash the ranks of the uniformed public health corps by 40%—reducing the corps of 6500 doctors, nurses, engineers and others to 4000. The administration would replace members of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps with civilians who…
According to official government records, 64 people were killed because of Hurricane Maria’s devastation in Puerto Rico last year. This is a "substantial underestimate," according to a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers from the Harvard T.H.
Wildfires are getting more frequent and more severe, leaving US communities like Montana’s Missoula and Seeley Lake with dangerously smoky summers that have an elusive impact on residents’ long-term health. After a major fire in 2017, children were relocated to a makeshift…
