Nurith Aizenman

Cancer surgeon Dr. Andre Ilbawi says he's haunted by the memory of a patient in Kenya whose sufferin...

Anthropologist Carla Handley is sitting cross-legged in a mud-walled house in a Kenyan village calle...

The patient – a man in his mid-30s – was languishing in a hospital in Bangladesh, infected with a di...

It's an unprecedented – and massive – experiment: Since 2017 the U.S.-based charity GiveDirectly has...

Mount Elgon's red earth slopes are home to hundreds of thousands of people who eke out a living grow...

The deadly shooting this month in Maine has once again shone a spotlight on how frequent this type o...

It's a part of getting older that many people worry about: The increased chance of developing diseas...

For more than two years Petro Terblanche has been spearheading a global effort with a game-changing ...

Here's an experiment that seems excruciating to imagine in the midst of the current global heat wave...

Do fish bay at the moon? The answer to that question may also point to a way to protect the ocean's ...

"What gets measured gets done." It's an expression often cited by global health advocates, notes Wor...

For decades, Dr. Daniel Bausch fought the world's most dangerous emerging tropical viruses directly ...

Tuberculosis may seem like a relic of the past in wealthy countries, yet it still kills more people ...

"Extremely worried." "The timing couldn't have been worse" Those were some of the concerns that NPR ...

There's been virtually no progress in reducing the number of women who die due to pregnancy or child...

"So we're just gonna go in a freezer," says Tulio de Oliveira. We're at the institute that he direct...

Imagine a world with vaccines not just for global threats like measles and COVID but for all the dis...

It's one of the most impressive COVID vaccination campaigns in the world. And it began with a text m...

It was an ambitious promise: Back in 2015 the world's leaders gathered at the United Nations to comm...