Health
Bacterial infections resistant to multiple drugs are widespread in Gaza, study...
By MEE staff
August 13, 2025
New research from The Lancet finds that two-thirds of specimens collected at al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City are resistant to...
UN Experts: Israel Committing ‘Medicide’ in Gaza
by Kyle Anzalone*
Aug 13, 2025
Two UN experts listed “medicide” – or the deliberate eradication of a healthcare system – among the crimes committed by...
Lancet study shows: Economic sanctions can kill like bombs and bullets
By Sue Harris
Aug 7, 2025
Two documents together explain the lethal effect of economic sanctions applied by powerful imperialist countries on about one-third of the...
Contaminated Water, Malnutrition Drive Guillain-Barré Outbreak in Gaza
Aug 5, 2025
Dr. Munir al-Bursh, Gaza’s Health Director. (Photo: via Gaza government media office)
Dr. Munir al-Bursh says Gaza faces mass death from disease and...
How the World Bank Left African Hospital Patients “Detained” and in...
Ben Dooley and Micah Reddy
Jul 8, 2025
It promised to improve health care for the poor through its investments with private equity firms.
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African researchers are working to cure HIV, but US aid cuts...
Dozens of trials on HIV ground to a halt in February after US President Donald Trump abruptly pulled crucial funding.
By Shola Lawal
May 1st, 2025
Patrick Arbuthnot...
A Dead World, Plastic-Wrapped to Preserve Freshness
If people who try to steer clear of plastics are still thoroughly enmeshed in them, what does that say for everyone else? And how...
Cuba brings hope to Alzheimer’s patients and their families
May 8, 2025
Dr. Lauren Collins reports on the positive results coming from new drugs that the world hears little about because they are developed...
New Report Shows Working-Class Americans Live 7 Years Fewer Than Rich
"The massive income and wealth inequality that exists in America today is not just an economic issue, it is literally a matter of life...
Lancet study finds Gaza life expectancy slashed in half by Israeli...
by Andre Damon
31 January 2025
Life expectancy in Gaza plunged by nearly 50 percent in the first year of the Israeli genocide in the besieged...