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A grocery store aisle of cleaning and disinfecting products
Disease
Living in a disinfected world could pose unintended consequences
Volunteers sit in plastic chairs as a medical professional gives a talk
COVID-19
South Africa begins coronavirus vaccine trial
How the Spread of COVID-19 Could Impacted the Treatment of Other Global Diseases 2020-04-20
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Since the inception of commercial air travel, the insides of airplane cabins have been associated with a higher likelihood of catching a cold or other spreadable disease. New research has sought out to see if scientific facts back up those sentiments.
Health
Study examines how diseases really spread during air travel
Dung Microbes, Gun Research, Airplane Germs, Kepler Mission. March 23, 2018, Part 2
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Arts, Culture & Media
Playing Against the Virus
A particular type of UV light, shown here with a scintillator composed of plastics, could revolutionize the practices of flu prevention.
Health
A cure for the flu? It could be as simple as sitting under a lamp.
Crosses are seen placed at a memorial in memory of the victims killed in the shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs in Sutherland Springs, Texas, U.S., November 8, 2017.
Health
This public health expert says he has a solution to mass shootings
Woman leans over hospital bed to give her daughter rehydration fluid at a cholera treatment center in Sanaa.
Conflict
Unpaid doctors and nurses fight largest cholera epidemic on record
Comey Firing Aftermath; Ransomware Attack; the Poetry of Pop
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Health
Studying splashes to learn more about how disease spreads
A syringe.
Health
Mining nature for the next groundbreaking antibiotic
A worker fogs the corridor
Health
Singapore is dealing with an outbreak of locally transmitted Zika infections
Health & Medicine
Global mental health issues woefully overlooked
Hematopoietic blood cells
Medicine
Blood-forming stem cells likely hold the key to curing many types of disease
Tuesday’s Turnout, Trump & The Truth, Understanding Autism
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A health technician analyzes blood samples from patients bitten by mosquitoes at the National Institute of Health in Lima, Peru.
Health
3 essential facts about how the Zika virus spreads
The blood of a survivor of the Ebola virus is extracted as part of a study launched at Liberia's John F. Kennedy Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia, June 17, 2015.
Medicine
West Africa is Ebola-free. Or is it?
Smog shrouds Chile's capital Santiago, June 22, 2015.
Environment
Climate change poses a massive health risk, but fighting it will be good for everyone
A Sri Lankan man reads the newspaper. People in Sri Lanka are most likely to read the paper in the mornings and evenings, the same times that disease-carrying mosquitoes come out to bite.
Environment
Could reading a newspaper save you from dengue fever?
Health & Medicine
High blood pressure takes increasing toll in Cambodia, developing world
Health & Medicine
Hypertension in the Developing World: The View from Cambodia
Global Politics
Mental Health Not Getting Enough Attention From UN
Evolutionary Medicine: Rethinking the Origins of Disease
Who Owns Life?
Chronic Wasting Disease
Health Update
Global Politics
Outbreak of rare disease in the Netherlands