ZIMBABWE: Growing risk of waterborne diseases in rural areas
An aid worker treats a cholera patient in Beitbridge, Zimbabwe, on the border with South Africa during the 2008/2009 outbreak of...
Is There Really Such A Thing As Brain Food?
People who ate a diet high in omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin D, which are commonly found in fish, and in...
To Your Health: Time For New Resolutions
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Japanese Smoking Culture Proves Hard To Snuff Out
Mina Abe (center) and Kota Osabe (right) are trying to promote blowing bubbles as an alternative to cigarette smoking in Japan.
In China, Finding A New Way To Eat In Times Of Plenty
Anna Hu at the Ao Hua Farmers Market in Shanghai. After years of working long hours and eating only in restaurants, Hu...
John Buse to chair federal diabetes education program
John Buse, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, has been named the new chair of the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP), a joint program of the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for...
YEMEN: Yemen malnutrition data should "shock"
UNICEF warns malnutrition-related deaths could rise in Yemen because of deteriorating health services
HIV study named 2011 Breakthrough of the Year by Science
The journal Science has chosen the HPTN 052 clinical trial, an international HIV prevention trial sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, as the 2011 Breakthrough of...
NIH researchers uncover clues related to metal-on-metal hip implants
X-ray of the hip region with a metal-on-metal implant superimposed.
Analysis: Getting early warning right in the Sahel
A woman and her children in western Chad, where malnutrition rates often surpass the international emergency...
