health
'It is a catastrophe': Afghans are in desperate need of food, humanitarian aid, refugee worker says
Astrid Sletten, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council’s office in Kabul, spoke to The World’s Carol Hills about the level of need in Afghanistan and what aid organizations are able to deliver in the current environment.
A micro safari through household germs reveals that cleanliness isn’t always a good thing
Highly trained and educated, some foreign-born doctors still can’t practice medicine in the US
Four months of food aid in Puerto Rico brought too much salt and sugar, say some recipients
Some refugees suffer culture shock — with their health care
For some women from conservative Muslim families, US health care practices can clash with what they are used to.
Ebola is over. Now the US wants a group of West African immigrants to go home.
They were in the US legally due to a statute offered to people from countries in crisis. Now, their crisis is deemed over, but it's not easy to return home.
In Minnesota, a measles outbreak exposes the gaps in public health
An outbreak grabbed the headlines for Somalis in this northern state. But advocates hope it can bring more than just an emergency response.
Studying splashes to learn more about how disease spreads
In the new Science Friday video “Breakthrough: Connecting the Drops,” Lydia Bourouiba and her team study how droplets travel when we sneeze, or flush the toilet.
'Implicit bias' may account for a glaring disparity in health care screening
Asian Americans are screened for Type 2 diabetes at lower rates than other groups. Researchers want to know why.
Day Jobs: Unannounced Standardized Patient
Lots of actors moonlight as waiters or baristas to pay the bills. Alex Kramer moonlights as a spy.
Think antibiotic-resistant 'super-bugs' are only a distant threat? Think again.
The death of a Nevada woman whose bacterial infection was immune to every available drug in the US is raising new alarms about antibiotic resistance.
In South Korea, parents are increasingly saying, 'we hope for a girl'
South Korean so preferred having boys that the country had to implement a law requiring doctors to refrain from revealing a baby's gender until late in the second trimester, so as to avoid sex-selective abortions.
Are on-demand, at-home blood tests better for our health?
We can now order personal blood tests online — and take them anytime we want. Is that a good thing?
How games are changing the way we stay fit
Fitness device and app makers are turning to stories, challenges and even our friends to keep us moving .