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Shahidul Haq Khan, a Bangladeshi health worker, and Tim Miner, an American with the World Health Organization, worked…

In 1973, Bhakti Dastane arrived in Bihar, India, to join the smallpox eradication campaign. She was a year out of…

By the mid-1970s, India’s smallpox eradication campaign had been grinding for over a decade. But the virus was still…

The global childhood obesity epidemic has exploded. Over the past four decades, the world has witnessed a tenfold increase in obesity in children and adolescents between 5 and 19 years old. More than 124 million children across the…

Timothy Olyphant, Norbert Leo Butz, Victor Williams and Marin Ireland in Justified: City Primeval…

In the mid-’60s, the national campaign to eradicate smallpox in India was underway, but the virus was still…

A national health advisory issued by U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on May 3, 2023, sheds light on the urgent public health issues of loneliness and isolation. The report reflects Dr. Murthy’s personal and professional experience…

President George H. W. Bush holds a bag of crack cocaine as he poses for photographers in the Oval Office of…

Sweden-headquartered royalty-free soundtrack provider Epidemic Sound has unveiled its latest offering, ‘Soundmatch,’ a tool music discovery powered by artificial intelligence.Through AI, Soundmatch analyzes the visual frames within a…

In the introduction to his new book, When Crack was King: A People's…