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Measles: The Highly Contagious Disease We Can Prevent
Imagine a disease so contagious that if one person has it in a room, 90% of unvaccinated people nearby will…
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Maternal Health: Protecting Mothers and Saving Lives
Every day, approximately 800 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. That’s one mother lost every two…
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Malnutrition: The Hidden Global Health Crisis
Imagine a world where one in every three people suffers from some form of poor nutrition. This isn’t a distant…
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Marburg Virus Disease: The Deadly Cousin of Ebola
Imagine a virus so deadly that it kills up to 9 out of every 10 people it infects, causing severe…
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Malaria: The Ancient Killer Still Threatening Millions
Imagine a disease so ancient that it affected the dinosaurs, so deadly that it has killed more people throughout history…
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Lymphatic Filariasis: Understanding the Disease That Causes Elephant-Like Swelling
Imagine waking up one day to find your leg has swollen to twice its normal size, becoming so heavy that…
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What Olympic athletes see that viewers don’t: Machine-made snow makes ski racing faster and riskier – and it’s everywhere
When viewers tune in to the 2026 Winter Olympics, they will see pristine, white slopes, groomed tracks and athletes racing…
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You’ve reached your weight loss goal on GLP-1 medications – what now?
GLP-1 drugs have ushered in a new era in weight loss. In just a few years, medications such as semaglutide…
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Overactive immune cells can worsen heart failure – targeting them could offer new treatments
Around 64 million people worldwide suffer from heart failure, and nearly half die within the first five years of diagnosis…
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Leishmaniasis: Group of diseases caused by protozoan parasites transmitted by sandflies
Dr. Fatima Ahmed (Gedaref State, Sudan) watched helplessly as 8-year-old Amina wasted away in the rural health center bed. Six…
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Lead poisoning: Naturally occurring toxic metal with widespread environmental contamination
Dr. Amara Diallo (Dakar, Senegal) noticed something was wrong with 4-year-old Ibrahim when his grandmother brought him to the pediatric…
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Lassa fever: Acute viral haemorrhagic illness caused by Lassa virus
Dr. Chioma Okonkwo (Ondo State, Nigeria) was working the night shift at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Ondo City when…
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Landslides: Large masses of soil, rocks or debris moving down slopes
Rosa Martínez (Guatemala) heard the sound first—a deep rumbling like distant thunder, but the sky was clear. It was 3:00…
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Victoria’s mountain ash forests naturally thin their trees. So why do it with machines?
David Clode/Unsplash, CC BY-ND Elle Bowd, Australian National University and David Lindenmayer, Australian National University There has been much global…
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Women have been mapping the world for centuries – and now they’re speaking up for the people left out of those maps
Although women have always been part of the mapping landscape, their contributions to cartography have long been overlooked. Mapmaking has…
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