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Cholera: Why a treatable disease still kills thousands when clean water would stop it
The text message came at 3 AM. Dr. Hassan, working with an aid organization in Yemen, watched five patients arrive…
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Children’s environmental health: The invisible killers in the air, water, and dirt
Three-year-old Maya couldn’t stop coughing. Her mother thought it was just another cold, common in their neighborhood near a busy…
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Childhood cancer: Why 80% survive in rich countries but only 30% in poor ones
Seven-year-old Amara was diagnosed with leukemia in rural Kenya. Her mother sold everything—their goats, her jewelry, borrowed from relatives—to get…
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Penis size may be driven by women (oh, and it matters)
Rob Brooks, UNSW Sydney How important is penis size? Authors from the Australian National University, Monash and La Trobe provide…
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Why are human penises so large? New evolutionary study finds two main reasons
Upama Aich, The University of Western Australia and MIchael Jennions, Australian National University “Size matters” sounds like a tabloid cliché,…
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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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Sean MacBride: Irish Statesman, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, and Human Rights Advocate
Sean MacBride (26 January 1904 – 15 January 1988), was an Irish statesman. In 1974, he won the Nobel Peace…
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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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