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Ebola virus disease: The deadly hemorrhagic fever we’re learning to fight with vaccines and monoclonal antibodies
Dr. Fatoumata Koroma will never forget the day Ebola arrived at her clinic in rural Guinea. It was March 2014.…
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Drugs (psychoactive): 296 million people used drugs in 2021—39.5 million affected by drug use disorders
Sarah Mitchell started using prescription painkillers after a car accident left her with chronic back pain. At first, the opioids…
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Drowning: The silent killer claiming 300,000 lives annually—most are preventable
Four-year-old Ravi wandered away from his mother for less than five minutes. She was cooking lunch in their village in…
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Drought: The slow-onset disaster threatening 700 million with displacement by 2030
Amina Hassan watched her youngest daughter, three-year-old Fatima, grow weaker each day. The rains hadn’t come to their village in…
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Dracunculiasis (Guinea-worm disease): The meter-long parasitic worm we’re about to eradicate
Emmanuel Tukura felt the familiar burning sensation on his left ankle one morning in rural Nigeria. Within hours, a painful…
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Disability: 1.3 billion people face health inequities created by barriers, not bodies
Maria Santos wheeled her chair up to the clinic entrance in Manila and stopped. Eight concrete steps. No ramp. No…
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Diphtheria: The throat-coating killer we thought we’d defeated is making a comeback
Six-year-old Amina started with what seemed like a simple sore throat. Her mother, Fatima, thought it was nothing serious—children get…
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Digital health: How technology is revolutionizing healthcare—and who’s being left behind
Dr. Amina Hassan in rural Kenya now consults with specialists 800 kilometers away through her smartphone. Five years ago, when…
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Diarrhoea: 370,000 children die annually from this preventable disease
Four-year-old Amara’s mother knew something was terribly wrong. The diarrhoea started suddenly—watery stools, one after another, hour after hour. By…
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Diagnostics: The critical medical tools that guide 70% of healthcare decisions
Dr. Amina Hassan stared at the small clinic’s single microscope—broken for three months. Without it, she couldn’t diagnose malaria definitively.…
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Diabetes: 830 million people worldwide live with this chronic disease
Rajesh Kumar noticed the symptoms gradually, then all at once. The 42-year-old shopkeeper in Mumbai felt constantly thirsty, drinking water…
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Depression: 280 million people live with this common mental health condition
Sarah Chen woke up one morning and couldn’t find a reason to get out of bed. Not because she was…
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Dengue and severe dengue: 14 million cases in 2024 and climbing faster than any other infectious disease
The fever hit Maria Rodriguez like a sledgehammer. One morning she felt fine. By afternoon, her temperature soared to 104°F.…
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Dementia: 57 million people affected globally, 10 million new cases annually
Margaret started forgetting small things first. Car keys misplaced. Appointments missed. The same story told twice in one conversation. Her…
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Deliberate events: When malicious acts target public health
The hospital emergency room in Salisbury, England, erupted into controlled chaos on March 4, 2018. Two patients arrived unconscious, frothing…
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