World Health Organization

  • W.H.O. are you?

    Bird flu, AIDS, heart disease: Thailand and Indonesia have lots of problems, but does the World Health Organization have the right answers?
    By Andrew Leonard February 8, 2007

  • Around the world in 80 lays

    British researchers turn up some surprising findings in the first-ever global sex survey.
    By Page Rockwell November 1, 2006

  • Death penalty for I.V. drug users

    The Bush administration is considering imposing a gag rule on U.S.-funded groups that provide clean needles to addicts, despite their huge success in preventing the spread of HIV.
    By Maia Szalavitz March 24, 2005

  • Bad blood in Egypt

    In one of the great medical tragedies in modern history, well-meaning Egyptian authorities are believed to have infected millions of people with hepatitis C.
    By Dawn MacKeen June 2, 2003

  • Fighting the plague

    The World Trade Organization steps into Africa's AIDS crisis, creating incentives for pharmaceutical companies to give some of their drugs away.
    By Ben Barber March 19, 2001

  • Did "America's pediatrician" sell out?

    Attachment parenting guru Dr. William Sears is found to have ties to the infant-formula industry.
    By Katie Allison Granju January 25, 2001

  • The dream and the coming disaster

    AIDS threatens to ravage the hopes of South Africa's young democracy. Don't expect leaders to get excited because a few companies cut the cost of HIV drugs.
    By Sabin Russell May 18, 2000

  • The Gitane affair

    Forget McDonald's and Coca-Cola; the French see American-style anti-tobacco lawsuits as one of the greatest threats to French culture.
    By Debra Ollivier February 9, 2000

  • Super-sized testicles no man could wish for

    Jumbo testicles are found in the tropics.
    By Hank Hyena December 23, 1999

  • The great straddler

    Free trader President Clinton veers left in Seattle. But will his finesse be enough to keep Al Gore's Democratic Party intact?
    By Todd Gitlin December 3, 1999

  • Formula for disaster

    Why do many doctors take a neutral or even pro-formula stance with their patients--despite evidence of the serious potential hazards of bottle-feeding?
    By Katie Allison Granju July 20, 1999

  • Formula for disaster

    Many new parents think infant formula is the next best thing to Mom, but nothing could be further from the truth.
    By Katie Allison Granju July 19, 1999

  • One who mattered

    The world has lost a healer and a sage
    By Joe Conason September 8, 1998

  • African Awakening

    Senegal turns against the tyranny of female genital mutilation.
    By Vivienne Walt June 3, 1998
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