Fuente: Health and Science Poverty consumes so much mental energy that people struggling to make ends meet often have little brainpower left for anything else, leaving them more susceptible to bad decisions that can perpetuate their situation, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.

Fuente: TED We’ve known how to cure malaria since the 1600s, so why does the disease still kill hundreds of thousands every year? It’s more than just a problem of medicine, says journalist Sonia Shah. A look into the history of malaria reveals three big-picture challenges to its eradication.

Fuente: The New York Times Bill and Melinda Gates, the guiding force behind one of the world’s most influential philanthropies, discuss their foundation’s work, their marriage and reading.

Fuente: UNDESA DSPD This E-dialogue on "Rethinking and strengthening social development in the contemporary world" is part of the preparatory process for the 54th session of the Commission for Social Development (CSocD) to be held in February 2016, and organized by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Fuente: World Health Organization Since the first edition was published in 2000, Managing Complications in Pregnancy and Childbirth has been translated into several languages and today is used widely in training for and the provision of emergency obstetric care. The new edition brings the guidance in the manual into line with WHO’s current recommendations for emergency obstetric and newborn care.

Dengue remains the most common vector-transmitted disease in the world despite enormous prevention and control efforts by endemic countries and regions. Today, after decades of research, public health programs contemplate as part of the intervention to control the disease, a safe and effective vaccine against dengue.

Fuente: BBC

The Vice Minister of Health Services, Dr. Julio Robles Ticas and representatives from the Inter-American Development Bank, (IDB) deliver recognitions for performance in healthcare to the Family Health Community Teams (Equipos Comunitarios de Salud Familiar - Ecos) from the Ministry of Health, who were selected from 75 participants in the Salud Mesoamerica 2015 Initiative.