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Eating food high in starch, sugar, fats and salt; combined with a sedentary lifestyle, is a recipe for soaring global obesity rates, even in countries where many still suffer from hunger. On World Food Day, which falls on Wednesday, the UN’s food agency, FAO, is calling for action to make healthy, sustainable diets affordable and accessible for all.

Rice porridge is served to children at an EU supported health outreach centre in Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through CDC, has awarded $13.5 million to conduct state and local planning and kick off community involvement for the proposed federal initiative, Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for Americaexternal icon, which seeks to reduce new HIV infections in America by 90% by 2030.

The United States has maintained its measles elimination status of nearly 20 years. The New York State Department of Health declared the end of the state’s nearly year-long outbreak that had put the U.S. at risk of losing its measles elimination status.

A microscopic image of liver tissue affected by non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). The large and small white spots are excess fat droplets filling liver cells (hepatocytes).

The central amygdala (CeA) functions as a pain rheostat in the forebrain, enhancing or attenuating pain. Modulation of pain is accomplished by cell-type-specific changes in activity after injury. Activity in CeA-PKCδ neurons drives increases in pain-related behaviors whereas activity in CeA-Som neurons reduces pain-like behaviors.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released updated interim clinical guidance for U.S. health care providers evaluating and caring for patients with lung injury associated with use of e-cigarette, or vaping, products.