CHRISTINA LARSON / The Associated PressDec 2, 2019
The world's top emitter of greenhouse gases is also a principle market for solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
MARIA CHENG and JAMEY KEATEN / The Associated PressJul 17, 2019
More than 1,600 people have died since August in a region described as a war zone. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
MIKE STOBBE and MARILYNN MARCHIONE / The Associated PressMay 7, 2019
"An American mom today is 50% more likely to die in childbirth than her own mother was," says a Harvard Medical School obstetrician. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Jessica Corbett / Common DreamsJun 17, 2018
While senators demand answers from the Pentagon, anti-war advocates blame the U.S. for failing to stop an attack on the Yemeni city of Hodeida. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 10, 2017
It started with a little country called Portugal, which in 2001 opted to treat possession and use of small quantities of drugs as a public health issue, not a criminal one. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
By Sally SatelJul 30, 2016
The spread of the Zika virus is a public health story, but politics isn't far behind. The consuming controversy here is why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization have dragged their feet in strongly recommending that women delay pregnancy. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Roisin Davis / TruthdigNov 13, 2015
"If these agreements open trade yet close the door to affordable medicines, we have to ask the question: Is this really progress at all?" said Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organization, at a health care conference in Geneva on Thursday. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Roisin Davis / TruthdigJul 25, 2015
After 28 years of development, European regulators have given the green light to the world’s first malaria vaccine. The disease killed an estimated 584,000 people in 2013, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigJul 14, 2015
After we learned that the island nation has had a cancer-suppressing vaccine for several years, it seemed impossible the country could have achieved another medical milestone -- until the World Health Organization announced that Cuba had become the "first country to eliminate the transmission of HIV and syphilis from mother to baby." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigOct 7, 2014
The panicked, isolationist rush to seal off America from the rest of the world shows how little pundits and politicians understand infectious disease. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigSep 23, 2014
The World Health Organization has issued a very frightening report that basically says as worried as we've all been about Ebola in West Africa, things are much, much worse. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigSep 3, 2014
The world's leading medical organizations are sounding the alarm over an outbreak of the Ebola virus, which has now spread to Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Senegal and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Of the 3,500 confirmed cases, 1,500 people have died. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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