World Health Headlines

Can a digital tablet cut back a country's overuse of antibiotics?
Thu Mar 05 2:19 pm
Overprescribing antibiotics breeds antibiotic resistance. A new tool aims to lower a notably high rate of such prescriptions in Rwanda.
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Why supporting a shelter for women is now 'kind of radioactive'
Wed Mar 04 7:51 am
That's how researcher Beatriz Garcia Nice describes the new U.S. stance under the Trump administration to programs addressing gender-based violence.
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A new one-a-day-pill holds promise for HIV's 'forgotten population'
Tue Mar 03 11:43 am
It's designed to take the place of complicated, multiple drug regimens that many people with HIV need to follow. And it's also beneficial because the HIV virus is always evolving.
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A U.S. scholarship thrills a teacher in India. Then came the soul-crushing questions
Sun Mar 01 8:36 am
She was thrilled to become the first teacher from a government-sponsored school in India to get a Fulbright exchange award to learn from U.S. schools. People asked two questions that clouded her joy.
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Unlocking the secrets of an ancient plague
Sat Feb 28 7:32 am
The first historically recorded pandemic is believed to have struck the walled city of Jirash, in what is now modern-day Jordan, in the 7th century. A new study reveals details about those who died.
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Despite U.S. pull out from WHO, reps were (virtually) at the table for big flu confab
Thu Feb 26 2:01 pm
After the U.S. withdrew from the World Health Organization, it wasn't clear they would participate in this WHO-led meeting to determine the recipe for the next flu vaccine.
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China and the U.S. alter foreign aid strategies
Tue Feb 24 3:50 pm
China's foreign aid strategy has shifted in the last few decades Now its model may be the one the U.S. is adopting even as China moves away from it.
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PHOTOS: Your car has a lot to say about who you are
Sun Feb 22 7:15 am
Photographer Martin Roemer visited eight countries — from the U.S. to Senegal to India — to show how our identities are connected to our mode of transportation.
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For years the Taliban told women to cover up in public. Now they're cracking down
Fri Feb 20 8:14 am
At hospitals, at seminaries and on buses, the Taliban is stepping up enforcement of rules on women's dress in the city of Herat.
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'Dude, good luck': The Olympic wit and wisdom of a pioneering African skeleton racer
Thu Feb 19 10:49 am
Who says serious athletes are always serious? Akwasi Frimpong, who's competed for Ghana, is a world-class wisecracker as he reflects on being a Black African athlete in the white world of winter sports.
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