Global Burden of Disease

Health & Medicine

Is treating obesity the future of managing type 2 diabetes?

Type 2 diabetes isn’t an inevitably progressive disease, but in treating it we must include weight management as a primary goal

Health & Medicine

How death by numbers promotes global health

Myanmar relies on its midwives to record causes of death, but like many countries the data is chronically incomplete. Now, with help from technology the midwives are doing accurate autopsies as well as delivering babies.