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The story of the Ebola vaccine began, as scientific advances often do, with a good idea and a lucky break.

Deep dysfunction: about 30% of U.S. health care spending—~$1 trillion/year—is wasted on inefficiencies, undue expenses, duplications, fraud, and abuse

Companies that do not cease manufacture, distribution and sale of unauthorized flavored e-cigarettes... within 30 days risk FDA enforcement.

The virus appears to be less dangerous than SARS, but there are still concerns of a wider outbreak in Asia

The Many Paths to Progress—and Why They Might Not Continue

Ominous independent report to UN by Global Preparedness Monitoring Board warns of “very real threat”—a future pandemic killing up to 80 million people

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, despite being only 50 percent effective, could dramatically reduce the impact of the world’s most lethal infectious disease.

Study is first to explore relationship between heat exposure and hospitalization for undernutrition—evidence of direct, rapid impact of global warming

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

Health has shaped the history of cities, but it is cities that will define the future of global health and economic development.