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Trucks carrying humanitarian aid enter Gaza Strip from Egypt in Rafah as a temporary ceasefire went into effect, Nov. 24, 2023.
Israel-Hamas war
‘We’re bracing for what comes after’ the truce, MSF Gaza director says
A worker walks alongside the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant's array of digester eggs in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York
Health & Medicine
Why has polio emerged in the US, UK and Israel? A polio eradication expert weighs in.
A hospital worker carries a tray of medicine at a government-run hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Health & Medicine
Sri Lankan doctors say the country can’t survive on donated drugs forever
A nurse prepares a Pfizer coronavirus vaccination at the Kiswa Health Center III in the Bugolobi neighborhood of Kampala, Uganda Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. 
COVID-19
Why auto-disable syringes are key to vaccinating the world
Merck corporate headquarters in Kenilworth, New Jersey.
Medicine
New Merck pill could help treat COVID-19 symptoms for people without access to vaccines
Eusebio Torres waits to be vaccinated as a nurse prepares the dose of the Cuban Abdala COVID-19 vaccine at the Gustavo Aldereguia hospital in Cienfuegos, Cuba, Sunday, May 30, 2021.
COVID-19
Cuba’s promise of a homegrown COVID-19 vaccine  
A member of the National Guard, center, administers the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to a farmworker.
COVID-19
Vaccine mandates aren’t new. But do they work?
Emine Aslan, a doctor on the vaccine team, prepares a COVID-19 vaccine for a patient in Ömerova
COVID-19
Turkey’s health workers hike steep mountains to deliver vaccines in isolated villages
Dr. Fauci stands at a podium in the White House press room with the American flag over his shoulder
COVID-19
A future pandemic is ‘almost guaranteed,’ Fauci says
A sole woman waits in an empty movie theater-turned vaccination hub for her vaccine at a mall
COVID-19
Vaccine hesitancy: A nationwide challenge in the Philippines
A pregnant person wearing a red shirt holds her belly, wearing a face mask and gloves.
Commentary
For pregnant women, getting the COVID-19 jab is a challenging choice
A masked man in a suit stands in front of a line of people waiting for a COVID-19 vaccine.
COVID-19
Efficiency over privacy: How trust in the Chinese government helped contain the pandemic
Men in orange and yellow jackets lift a box of vaccines from COVAX off of a truck bed
COVID-19
Norway’s minister calls on others to follow his country’s lead in sharing COVID-19 vaccines
Army captain in scrubs administers COVID-19 vaccine to man in black shirt
Medicine
The quest for a universal coronavirus vaccine
Anita Anand, Canada's Minister of Public Services and Procurement opens a box with some of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses that Canada has secured through a deal with the Serum Institute of India in partnership with Verity Pharma at a facility in M
COVID-19
A Canadian company challenges vaccine rules to increase access 
A man wearing a blue shirt and black cap gets a vaccine shot by a health care worker.
COVID-19
Grassroots organizations tackle vaccine misinformation in farmworker communities
Residents of the Iztacalco borough follow a long, snaking line to receive doses of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V, during a mass vaccination campaign for Mexicans over age 60, at the Advanced School for Physical Education, in Mexico City, Feb. 24,
COVID-19
Russia expands ‘soft power’ in Latin America with Sputnik vaccine
A health worker administers the Chinese Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine to his colleague while the prime minister's adviser on health issues Faisal Sultan, second right, and other officials watch during a ceremony to start the vaccination campaign in Islamabad
Health & Medicine
The biggest challenge for vaccine workers in Pakistan? Staying alive.
An Indian British woman wears a face mask and receives a shot in her arm with someone wearing purple gloves.
COVID-19
British celebs, religious leaders fight vaccine hesitancy in minorities
People wait in a long line at an oxygen distribution warehouse near downtown Mexico City.
COVID-19
Mexico’s COVID-19 wards are full. Many patients who can’t get oxygen die at home.
A gloved hand holds a needle up-close.
COVID-19
How India’s Serum Institute became a COVID-19 vaccine powerhouse
A health worker gives an injection to a mock patient during a coronavirus vaccine drill in Bali, Indonesia.
COVID-19
China’s ‘vaccine diplomacy’ fills void in developing world left by US ‘vaccine nationalism’
Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks during a news conference with the coronavirus task force at the White House, Nov. 19, 2020.
COVID-19
‘We could crush this outbreak’ with mass vaccinations, says Dr. Anthony Fauci
Two people stand at a protest with a loud speaker in their hands.
Health
A therapists’ network supports immigrants, advocates during pandemic 
In this Sept. 15, 2020, file photo, a Russian medical worker administers a shot of Russia's experimental Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in Moscow, Russia.
COVID-19
The key to combating vaccine hesitancy? Deep listening, tailored messaging.
Dressed in protective gear to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, a medical worker massages a patient, at a military hospital set up to take care of COVID-19 patients.
COVID-19
COVID-19 takes its toll on Mexico’s health workers
Two-year-old Lula-Belle Butler-Wenlock-Simpson, right, who was born with heart problems and underwent open-heart surgery, poses with a Special Friends doll whose scar mirrors her own.
Education
‘Special Friends’ dolls reflect the lives of children with special needs
A photo of a gondola in Venice's Grand Canal
COVID-19
Travel restrictions could slow coronavirus spread, but they are ‘not enough alone’
Edward Jenner, vaccinating his young child, held by Mrs. Jenner; a maid rolls up her sleeve, a man stands outside holding a cow. Coloured engraving by C. Manigaud after E Hamman.
From cow pox to mumps: people have always had a problem with vaccination
A medical worker in protective suit checks a patient's records at Jinyintan hospital in Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak, in Hubei province, China, Feb. 13, 2020. 
Climate Change
Climate change will make animal-borne diseases more challenging to predict
Doctors operate under a dim light in a clinic.
Health & Medicine
Invisible ‘superbug’ could be more deadly than bombs in Middle East war zones
A woman's face with needles in it
Health & Medicine
Chinese medicine is getting WHO recognition. Some doctors are alarmed.
A child is given an oral vaccine.
Health & Medicine
A newly designed vaccine may help stamp out remaining polio cases worldwide
Four elderly people sit on a park bench.
Health & Medicine
Can we improve the way we age?
People stand with face masks on the verandah of a yellow hospital building.
Health & Medicine
A raging TB epidemic in Papua New Guinea threatens to destabilize the entire Asia Pacific
A computer model of a bacteriophage, which looks like a robot bug.
Health & Medicine
Are viruses the best weapon for fighting superbugs?
a baby with blonde hair and a white dress receives a vaccination in the left thigh
Health & Medicine
‘Vaccine hesitancy’ is on the WHO’s list of 10 threats to global health in 2019
Women in uniform hold stretchers in front of ambulances in this historic photo.
How the Spanish flu could have changed 1919’s Paris peace talks
A woman wearing a scarf over her face stands by a wall carrying a polio vaccination kit box in Pakistan
Health & Medicine
Sewage surveillance is key in the fight against polio
American James Allison and Japanese Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine on Monday for game-changing discoveries about how to harness and manipulate the immune system to fight cancer.
Health & Medicine
Scientists behind game-changing cancer immunotherapies win Nobel medicine prize
Congolese officials wear haz-mat suits in the DRC
Health & Medicine
Ebola fight has new science but faces old hurdles in restive Congo
a soldier and policeman face a field with their backs to the camera
Is medical marijuana the antidote to Lebanon’s trade deficit?
Smoke rises above a crowd assembled in front of the Ottawa government building
Move over gummy bears. Soon, you can drink weed in Canada.
Book tells story ‘most famous man most of us have never heard of’
In 1908, New Zealand Parliament passed the Prevention of Quackery Act to defend against claims such as the one featured in this leaflet: "bile beans" that claimed to cure a vareity of ailments, including indigestion, headaches, pimples and sleeplessness.
Books
New book looks at medical cures now considered ‘quackery’
1918 flu Camp Funston
Health
The world remains unprepared to handle a major epidemic, a new book warns
US embassy in Cuba
Global Politics
More details but no answers in brain trauma cases of US diplomats in Cuba
South Korea's women's national volleyball player Lee Sook-ja undergoes an acupuncture session with Park Ji-hun, the oriental doctor in charge of the team, at a gym in Jincheon, 150 km south of Seoul, July 5, 2012.
Health
When treating sports injuries, does the West do it best?
The percentage of parents who refuse to give any vaccines to their children remain at one to two percent of the general public. There is a much larger group of people who have doubts and concerns over certain vaccinations, experts say.
Health
Despite dozens of recent flu deaths among US children, vaccination skeptics remain — and their numbers have grown
Stolling outdoors
Health
Getting outside is a prescription for better health
People walk past a fruit and vegetables stall selling medicines at a market in Rubio, Venezuela Dec. 5, 2017.
Economics
Venezuela’s chronic shortages give rise to ‘medical flea markets’
Hospitals in the US mainland are facing shortages of IV fluids and medicine because of Hurricane Maria's damage to Puerto Rico.
Medicine
Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. Then it caused a ripple effect in mainland hospitals.
Mosquitoes and a dragonfly fly around a lit bulb on a hot summer in southern Spain.
Health
To combat the spread of Zika, a nonprofit is using drones and sterile mosquitoes
Cone snail
Science
A scientist who finds pharmaceutical promise in the venom of cone snails
Mulaba Habanyama, 24, preparing her Gingerbread Tiramisu
Health
At pop-up eatery in Canada, HIV education is on the menu
syrian hospital
Conflict
Syrian doctors forced to use Facebook Live, expired drugs and old gloves
After her third daughter was born, Faten decided to make sure that her fourth child would be a boy. She says she has a career and a family to take care of. She can't keep getting pregnant over and over again.
Medicine
An Israeli woman traveled to the West Bank so she could be sure she’d have a boy
A pharmacist holds prescription painkiller OxyContin, 40mg pills, made by Purdue Pharma L.D. at a local pharmacy.
Health
Why the opioid crisis is an American problem
peru
Global Politics
Medical marijuana legalized in Peru
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