10,000 Poor Liberian Households to Benefit from Cash Transfers
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved a new financing agreement of US$10 million International Development Association (IDA) credit to provide income support to extremely poor and food insecure households in Liberia. This agreement...
NIH statement on World Asthma Day 2016
On World Asthma Day 2016, the National Institutes of Health reaffirms its commitment to support research to improve the lives of all people with asthma. NIH-funded research has advanced our understanding of asthma as a disease as well as the impact...
Elevated bladder cancer risk in New England and arsenic in drinking water from private wells
A new study has found that drinking water from private wells, particularly dug wells established during the first half of the 20th century, may have contributed to the elevated risk of bladder cancer that has been observed in Maine, New Hampshire, and...
NIH creates Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations
(From left) Adebowale Adeyemo, M.D., Max Muenke, M.D., and Paul Kruszka, M.D.,...
Autism Diagnosed at Younger Ages
'Wandering' a Hazard for More Than a Third of Kids With Autism
More U.S. Kids Have Chronic Health Problems: Study
Seven Things Pregnant Women and Parents Need to Know About Arsenic in Rice and Rice Cereal
Kids of Older Moms May Have a Leg Up on Their Peers
Workplace stress ‘a collective challenge’ as work-life boundaries become blurred – UN
Workers at a factory in Accra, Ghana, which produces shirts for overseas clients.
