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Health accounts: Following the money to improve healthcare worldwide
Finance Minister Priya Sharma stared at the spreadsheet, frustrated. Her country’s health budget had doubled in five years, yet maternal…
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Global health ethics: Moral principles guiding healthcare decisions worldwide
Dr. Sarah Omondi sat in the ethics committee meeting, her hands trembling slightly as she reviewed the research proposal. A…
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Genomics: Revolutionizing healthcare through complete genetic understanding
Seven-year-old Maya had been sick her entire life. Mysterious infections landed her in hospital repeatedly. Dozens of tests revealed nothing.…
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Foodborne diseases: Over 200 illnesses from contaminated food worldwide
Eight-month-old Kwame wouldn’t stop crying. His mother, Abena, had noticed the diarrhea starting that morning in their village outside Accra,…
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Floods: Most frequent disaster affecting 2 billion people worldwide
Amina Bibi stood on the roof of her home, watching the brown water rise. It had been raining for three…
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Electromagnetic fields: Invisible waves everywhere—what you need to know
The new cell tower installed three months ago stood directly across from her bedroom window, its red warning lights blinking…
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Earthquakes: Nearly 750,000 people died between 1998-2017—125 million affected by the sudden disaster
Dr. Aisha Mahmoud was performing a cesarean section when the hospital began to shake. It was 4:17 AM on February…
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Emergency and critical care: Over half of deaths in low-income countries could be prevented with better emergency systems
Sarah Kiptoo’s water broke at 2 a.m., three weeks before her due date. The 23-year-old first-time mother in rural Kenya…
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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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IndiGo CEO Addresses December Disruptions: ‘We Failed Our Customers’ but Lasted Only ‘Three Days’
NEW DELHI: IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers addressed the media regarding the significant flight disruptions that affected hundreds of thousands of…
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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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Activists Urge Significant Increase in Health Spending for Upcoming Budget
A coalition of 350 organizations and individuals has called for a significant increase in India’s health budget, urging the government…
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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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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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