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Practise using bags and lunchboxes: how to build your child’s confidence as they start school
Starting school is a big moment in a child’s life. It is a time filled with new routines, new people…
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Child health: Why millions of preventable deaths happen while we watch
The small boy arrived at the clinic barely breathing. His mother had walked six hours carrying him, watching his tiny…
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Child Growth: The Most Important Numbers You’re Not Tracking
Every month, Sophie takes her 18-month-old daughter Emma to the clinic. The nurse measures Emma, plots the numbers on a…
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The Disease That Went From Nowhere to Everywhere
Picture this: it’s 2003, and you’re a medical student in Brazil. You’re memorizing hundreds of diseases, but chikungunya isn’t one…
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The Invisible Poisons in Our Daily Lives
I want you to think about chemicals for a moment. Not in some abstract, distant factory way. I mean the…
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The Invisible Disaster Killing Thousands: When Chemicals Escape Control
It happens more often than you think. A tanker truck overturns on a highway, spilling toxic chemicals into a river.…
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The Parasite That Hides for Decades Before Destroying Your Heart
They call it the “kissing bug” because it bites people’s faces while they sleep, often near the mouth or eyes.…
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The Cancer We Could Actually Wipe Out – If We Choose To
I want to tell you about something unprecedented in cancer history: the world has set a goal to eliminate a…
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How the polar vortex and warm ocean are intensifying a major US winter storm
A severe winter storm sweeping across the central and eastern U.S. in late January 2026 threatened states from Texas to…
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The Silent Threat Killing More People Than Cancer, COVID, and Accidents Combined
Let me hit you with a statistic that changed how I think about health: cardiovascular diseases kill 17.9 million people…
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The Cancer Crisis We Could Actually Prevent
Here’s a number that stopped me in my tracks: one in six people who die globally dies from cancer. That’s…
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The Silent Skin Destroyer: Inside the Mystery of Buruli Ulcer
Imagine developing a massive, destructive ulcer on your arm or leg – and feeling absolutely no pain. No fever. No…
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The Brain Health Crisis You Haven’t Heard About
When was the last time you thought about your brain health? If you’re like most people, probably not recently. We…
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Your brain can be trained, much like your muscles – a neurologist explains how to boost your brain health
If you have ever lifted a weight, you know the routine: challenge the muscle, give it rest, feed it and…
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