International aid agencies warned yesterday that Zimbabwe’s humanitarian crisis was deepening, with a sharp rise in acute child malnutrition and a worsening cholera epidemic.
President Robert Mugabe’s government has acknowledged the collapse of Zimbabwe’s health system, but he also claimed earlier this month that the epidemic had been brought under control and that there was “no [...]
People in the United States and Western Europe are broadly dissatisfied with their health care systems, a new poll shows, with Americans even more upset than Europeans.
More than 4 in 5 Americans say the U.S. health system needs fundamental changes or even a complete overhaul, according to the poll by Harris Interactive for the International [...]
This submission summarizes Human Rights Watch’s key concerns with Zambia’s fulfillment of its human rights obligations and commitments in the context of women’s human rights and HIV/AIDS, and outlines recommendations to Zambia.
For an elaborate analysis, outlining our concerns in detail, please see the Human Rights Watch report Hidden in the Mealie Meal: Gender-based Abuses and [...]
WILLINGBORO � The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery has accredited Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County.
The society’s surgical review committee recently designated the hospital on Sunset Road as a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence. Bariatric surgery is the term for operations to help promote weight loss.
Alexander Hatala, president and CEO of Lourdes Health [...]
