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HIV/AIDS information on display in a city health office in the Philippines

Researchers hope to keep the mosquito that transmits dengue.

Drug firms fear that being "liked" on Facebook could get them in trouble with the FDA.

Spiralling food prices are forcing up malnutrition in Nairobi's slums

Healthy fare is becoming more common in school cafeterias.

Go ahead and jump, but hold your nose.

Stoners and scientists alike may be stoked to learn that a startup biotech company has completed the DNA sequence of Cannabis sativa, or marijuana. But here's something that could ruin a high: The company hopes the data will help scientists breed pot plants without much THC, the mind-altering chemical in the plant. The goal is instead to maximize other compounds that may have therapeutic benefits.

A group of Somali women and children wait to be registered at the transit centre in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia

Our colleague over at NPR's foreign desk, Corey Flintoff, filed this radio piece for today's Morning Edition on a rich tradition in India of making and chewing spice and nut packets wrapped in betel leaves called paan. It turns out that paan is being threatened by an influx of cheaper commercially prepared packets containing tobacco.