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Ten years since adopting the Hyogo Framework for Action shortly after the Indian Ocean Tsunami, government representatives have gathered in Sendai to negotiate a new framework for global action to reduce the risks of disasters. For the first time, protecting people's health is at the centre of such a framework.

The National Kidney Disease Education Program is working to help community health workers fill the kidney disease education gap within the Hispanic community. Here, a woman shows a group a picture identifying kidneys in Spanish.

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A new mouse model of neurodegeneration. This image compares sections of cortex from a control mouse (left) to a mouse with a presenilin-1 mutation (right). The dashed line indicates the surface of the brain. Presenilin-1 mutations decrease gamma-secretase activity and cause features of neurodegeneration, including shrinkage of the cortex, as shown above.

WHO and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) are combining their forces in a new partnership in the Ebola-affected countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The arrangement combines the logistics strength of WFP with WHO’s public health expertise to help get the current Ebola outbreak down to zero cases in West Africa. The platform also establishes an alert and response infrastructure for future crises.

This plane at the UN Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Italy is bound for Sierra Leone with $300,000 worth of World Food Programme (WFP) equipment to tackle the Ebola outbreak.

New research supported by the National Institutes of Health shows how elements of the brain’s stress and reward pathways can interact to suppress binge alcohol drinking. The finding, suggests potential strategies for treating and preventing alcohol use problems.