Influenza (the flu) causes around 40,000 deaths a year, not to mention suffering from illness and loss of work.

Ever heard of the Chikungunya virus? Most people haven't, yet more than a million people in the Western Hemisphere have caught it.

Measles is so contagious that if one person has it, 90% of the people close to that person who are not immune will also

Nothing kills more people each year than cardiovascular diseases. The World Health Organization reports that an estimated 7.4 million people died from some form

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide suffer every day from chronic diseases of the airways and other structures of the lung. Chronic respiratory diseases

WiRED International now offers a complete module series on the echocardiographic diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in Portuguese. These training modules will be

For Armenians living in villages such as Karchaxbyur, access to information on dental health can be a challenge. After Davit Davtyan's parents saw WiRED's

A man we’ll call George lives in Kisumu, a poverty-stricken area in western Kenya. Now age 30, he developed a drinking problem when just

National Public Health Week is here! To get the ball rolling, President Barack Obama issued a proclamation declaring National Public Health Week and acknowledging

Although rheumatic heart disease or RHD is completely preventable, it affects millions of people worldwide, two-thirds of them children in low-resource countries. In response

How do you describe WiRED International in five minutes or less? Now WiRED offers a video that can do just that. The video was

WiRED International will soon present a new twist on our health education program: the Module Express series. WiRED developed the new Express series particularly

Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke. Do you know the signs of a person having a stroke? And if

A healthy menopause is key to a woman’s well-being as she ages. To that end WiRED International now offers a module on menopause as

WiRED International now offers 16 new or revised “Express” health learning modules in both English and Spanish. WiRED created the Express modules for grassroots

This week a WiRED International team is traveling to South America to bring medical and health information to underserved and remote communities in the

Denis Onyango is a staff member at the WiRED International medical and health education center in Obunga, Kenya. What follows is an excerpt from

Armenian children at the Orran NGO (nongovernmental organization) celebrated World Oral Health Day by learning about dental hygiene. Health learning events, employing WiRED’s training

Learning about asthma just got easy: WiRED International now offers an Express module on asthma. Some 235 million people, or one in 12, currently

He who sings prays twice, St. Augustine is believed to have said. The St. Kizito Choir Pandipieri, Kenya, brings this saying to life every

Cancer is frightening. Almost everyone has been touched by it in some way, and the number of new cases is expected to rise by

This week WiRED International will return to Nicaragua after nearly a year to provide projectors, laptops and our Community Health Education Library to a

WiRED is pleased to announce the release of a rheumatic heart disease (RHD) animation video. In the space of a few minutes, our video

Intensive blood pressure management may save lives, according to a federal clinical trial that was ended early in order to rush the findings to

When Berkeley graduate student Thabani Nyoni went to Capetown, South Africa, to do a summer research project, he took WiRED International’s health education modules

WiRED International recently has forged a partnership with the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation to develop educational modules on mesothelioma, a deadly cancer affecting the

Flu season typically occurs between October and May. Have you gotten your flu shot yet? “Get vaccinated,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director

WiRED International announces the launch of the Community Health Education Initiative in Honor of the late U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. Board Chair Anthony

WiRED is proud to spotlight the recent publication of Fundamentals of Cancer Prevention, edited by WiRED Honorary Board member David S. Alberts, M.D., and

Anemia affects an estimated 1.62 billion people or nearly one quarter of the world’s population. The highest instance of anemia occurs in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Antibiotics save millions of lives each year around the world, but the overuse and misuse of antibiotics in humans and animals present challenges to

Today United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling for world action in the fight against acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or AIDS. He said, “To break

In October 2015 WiRED International launched a community health education initiative honoring the late Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. (See earlier story.) Now WiRED is

An emerging mosquito-borne illness called Zika is spreading through South America, Africa, the Pacific Islands and elsewhere. In reaction to recent outbreaks, WiRED International

There are around two billion children in the world. To safeguard their future, they need to experience healthy physical, socio-economical and cognitive development in