Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. Last week, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) reintroduced legislation ...

The campaign to prevent and treat these diseases has seen great success thanks to a USAID program. Now that program is gone.

Some diseases are rare, in that they are experienced by relatively few people. Others are neglected, in that few, if any, drugs are available to treat them. Rare and neglected diseases aren’t rare in ...

You've likely heard about "neglect," but is "over neglect" a term invented by social media? While over-neglect is not a clinical or legal term, it is an experience you may have lived out in ...

Francisca Mutapi receives research funding from the Royal Society in the UK, She is board member for Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases. There are already tools to prevent and treat these ...

Monique Wasunna is the director of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative Africa Regional Office. These diseases are transmitted in various ways. Guinea worm disease, for instance, is water-borne ...

As many of you know, I have an issue with being fairly heavily neglected by people around me — especially relatives. I mean, my family didn’t even show up to my weddings, and there were three attempts ...

Kids have a mind of their own and it is mostly governed by the conditions where his/ her requests and demands are met. Every kid loves to be pampered, seen, heard, spoken to, and where all their ...