Global Health
The problem with sewage
Inadequate sanitation kills more people in developing nations than AIDS, tuberculosis or malaria.
Lead poisoning in developing countries
Lead batteries are becoming a deadly problem in developing countries where they are melted down and sold as scrap metal....
Genetically engineered Golden Rice
Rice genetically modified to produce Vitamin A could be the answer to some childhood health problems in the developing world....
AIDS doctors arrested in Iran
Iran imprisons two doctors, architects of its HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programs, over alleged plot to overthrow the government....
Economic transition and mortality rates
A new study links health with economic change, focusing on the collapse of the Soviet Union and higher death rates of men....
A cholera epidemic stalks Zimbabwe
A humanitarian crisis is developing as a raging outbreak of cholera has struck thousands in the troubled African nation of Zimbabwe....
Tracing the journey of AIDS drugs
The challenge of delivering AIDS drugs in Africa -- the journey of a bottle of pills from an Indian factory to a patient in Ivory Coast....
China's diabetes epidemic
With nearly 40 million diabetics and growing, China faces a raging health epidemic -- the coming impact the disease will have on the country....
Low-cost technologies for disease diagnostics
Scientists at Harvard University are developing low-cost, portable tools to help health workers in the developing world....
Sierra Leone mental health
The challenges of delivering mental health care to the thousands of Sierra Leone adolescents who were forced to fight as soldiers during that country's civil war....
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