Author Archives: Isabel Beshar

A particular generational divide has informed one discussion: electronic medical records.

The line between health and politics cannot be blurred.

The question is not “Can we end AIDS?” It is “Will we?” Does the U.S. have the political willpower to implement the substantial means to achieve a great end? The answer is yours to decide.

Seated on a plastic kindergartener’s chair, I must have looked ridiculous. My long legs barely fit under the chair and the 103-degree heat was becoming uncomfortable. In contrast to my inelegance, my companions seemed completely poised. Meet Mira and Anna, two 16-year-old preschool teachers in Goyena, Nicaragua. Four hundred Nicaraguans inhabit this sleepy village, nestled »