The World Health Organization’s first global report on diabetes highlights the disease’s “alarming surge” with rates that have quadrupled in fewer than three decades. The report reminds us that essential diabetes medicines and health technologies, including lifesaving insulin, are available in only one in three of the world’s poorest countries.

Gary Cohen is co-founder and president of Health Care Without Harm. His focus is global health care delivery and its role in promoting health equity, environmental health, and sustainable development.  For over 20 years, Gary has monitored the health care sector’s significant role in contributing to environmental degradation. He and his international networks have successfully advocated ways to improve human and ecological health through transforming health care practices....

With the recent release of the movie “Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe,” I’m seeing a few blog posts and articles pop up about the hegemonic nature of science and the consensus culture that the field supposedly embodies. In fact, this argument is at the center of the anti-vaccine movement in general.

This week, Yannis Valtis joined us for a short conversation about a new paper he and colleagues recently published in BMJ Global Health. Their study evaluated a program to provide free access to UpToDate to clinicians practicing in low-resource settings, and the findings were fascinating.