Ebola vaccine cuts death rates in half — even if it's given after infection
There's welcome news in the battle against the Ebola virus, an infectious disease that for years had...
There's welcome news in the battle against the Ebola virus, an infectious disease that for years had...
Last week, the International Court of Justice issued a preliminary ruling that the charge brought by...
"Billionaires, for many of them, times have never been better." That's a quote from Rebecca Riddell,...
In Gaza, the World Health Organization warns that illness may ultimately kill more people than Israe...
Not all birds sing, but those that do — some several thousand species — do it a lot. All over the wo...
The year 2022 set a grim record — 1,989 attacks on health-care facilities and their personnel, the w...
Just over a week after the fragile truce between Israel and Hamas collapsed, the World Health Organi...
About a decade ago, a new kind of mosquito began showing up in African cities. Native to Asia, Anoph...
Head lice are considered a nuisance — a pest to be evicted from the hair on your head or the head of...
Maoz Inon no longer sleeps well at night. His loss is too great. So first thing every morning, for 4...
"The smell of blood is everywhere," says Dr. Mohammad Mattar, the head of the radiology department a...
The World Health Organization has recommended usage of a second vaccine for the prevention of malari...
"As a malaria researcher," says WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, "I used to dream of...
In the summer of 2014, a passenger landed with a fever at the airport in Lagos, Nigeria — a city of ...
At the height of the pandemic, world leaders proposed a bold idea. They envisioned a pandemic treaty...
The soft footfalls of thousands of moccasins along unpaved rural roads across Bangladesh could be co...
The day John Chiti was born was a difficult one for his family in Zambia. "They were shocked and the...
Last fall, NPR interviewed Ethiopian doctors in the northern region of Tigray. They spoke of a healt...
When someone enters the hospital with the chikungunya virus, there's no mistaking it. "The patients ...
When someone enters the hospital with the chikungunya virus, there's no mistaking it. "The patients ...
This summer, with wildfire smoke suffocating swaths of North America, we've been warned to stay indo...
When Gulrez Azhar travels from his Seattle-area home to Uttar Pradesh in northern India, where he gr...
The first time Nicola Veitch went to a soccer game, she danced on the field in a white lab coat alon...
Finding new species of fish was the goal when marine biologist Hudson Pinheiro was diving in the Ver...
Astronauts are supposed to be in excellent health. It's part of the job description. They quarantine...
Two weeks ago, 93-year-old Joy Ryan set a world record. In her words, "I'm the oldest old lady to ev...
In 2005, Dr. Olajide Williams felt like he had two jobs. Each evening, he'd finish up his work as a ...
Years ago, when some family and community members learned that young Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame was lo...
Can a robot provide helpful answers to your health concerns? Like, "I'm 39 weeks pregnant and I ha...
What should the World Health Organization add to its agenda? That's a question to ponder as WHO mark...