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Thousands of women and children are dying as a direct consequence of the current economic crisis which is already derailing efforts to improve maternal care and cut child death rates, the head of the World Health Organisation has warned.

In 2006, over forty million Americans existed without health coverage. The majority of Americans would like a government-run healthcare system - including medical professionals, business people and Republicans, argues Daina Saib.

The number of urban slum-dwellers worldwide has broken the 1 billion mark, making it clear that the urbanization of poverty is one of the biggest challenges facing developing countries today, writes Nasidi Adamu Yahaya.

With progress towards primary health care still slow three decades after the Alma-Ata declaration, an effective alliance of global and country actors is needed to set positive and realistic paths to implement the declaration’s intentions, argues Anthony Seddo.

Welcome to Sicko Nation: Swimming in a toxic soup of 100,000 synthetic chemicals--carcinogens, neurotoxins, hormone disruptors, immune suppressors, excitotoxins...

It’s the deadly calculus of health care in America: Billions of dollars are spent in the name of caring for the sick, yet millions go without the health care they need.

When compared to other developed countries, the U.S. ranks near the bottom on most standard measures of health. Many people assume that this is because the U.S. is more ethnically heterogeneous than the nations at the top of the rankings, such as Japan, Switzerland, and Iceland.