Health
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Mental Health: An Essential Part of Overall Wellbeing
Imagine feeling so overwhelmed by sadness that getting out of bed seems impossible. Or experiencing such intense anxiety that your…
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Meningitis: The Brain Infection That Can Kill in Hours
Imagine a perfectly healthy teenager going to school in the morning, developing a headache and fever by lunchtime, and slipping…
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Medicines: Life-Saving Tools in the Fight Against Disease
Every day, billions of people around the world take medicines—a pill to lower blood pressure, an antibiotic to fight infection,…
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Medical Devices: Essential Tools Saving Lives Every Day
Every time you visit a doctor, hospital, or clinic, you encounter medical devices. The thermometer measuring your temperature, the stethoscope…
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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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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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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 MartÃnez (Guatemala) heard the sound first—a deep rumbling like distant thunder, but the sky was clear. It was 3:00…
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