Noncommunicable Diseases

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When their families moved from areas of high poverty to “opportunity neighborhoods,” kids with asthma had 50% fewer asthma attacks in the first year than they did before they moved.

Chronic conditions like diabetes are not just killing older people, they're coming for the young. The threat from noncommunicable diseases like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer is real and rising—and now is the time to ensure meaningful youth engagement in the fight against NCDs and their risk factors.

Insulin manufacturer Eli Lilly follows the government’s lead with a $35 price cap. Will manufacturers follow suit?

Dinesh Neupane, an assistant scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, received a grant, together with the University of Gothenburg, from the Swedish Research Council to examine the relationship between heat and chronic kidney disease among migrant and non-migrant workers in Nepal.