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URBANIZATION: Air Pollution, Bad Diets and Other Big City Woes
Short 2018 feature looks at a few of the human health impact of urbanization and explores some of the possible ways to improve modern urban life.
New TB Vaccine Could Save Millions of Lives
New TB vaccine, despite being only 50 percent effective, could dramatically reduce the impact of the world’s most lethal infectious disease.
ENVIRONMENT: Association between heat exposure and undernutrition in Brazil, 2000−2015
Study is first to explore relationship between heat exposure and hospitalization for undernutrition—evidence of direct, rapid impact of global warming
South Korea deploys snipers and drones to fend off deadly pig virus
Some 1.9 million pigs have been culled in China alone because of African swine fever, which has now spread to 10 Asian countries. But there’s hope in
The Future of Global Health Is Urban Health
Health has shaped the history of cities, but it is cities that will define the future of global health and economic development.