ALTHOUGH health and wellness outcomes like life expectancy continue improving, “cross-border development assistance for health is falling,” according to World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Global Cooperation ...

Late former President Jimmy Carter had the goal of ending guinea worm disease for 38 years. Now, his goal is almost at the finish line.

“It also positions Niger as a model for the elimination of neglected tropic diseases in Africa. The country previously demonstrated its leadership in public health by eliminating Guinea-worm ...

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They recruited 36 pregnant women and ... Mothers of Twins Face a Higher Risk of Heart Disease in the Year After Birth Feb. 3, 2025 — The risk of being admitted to the hospital with heart disease ...

More than 1.5 billion people around the world are infected with soil-transmitted helminths (STHs), parasitic worms that damage their health and are a leading cause of malnutrition in children.

Neurodegenerative diseases are a heterogeneous group of disorders that are characterized by the progressive degeneration of the structure and function of the central nervous system or peripheral ...

Diseases are abnormal conditions that have a specific set of signs and symptoms. Diseases can have an external cause, such as an infection, or an internal cause, such as autoimmune diseases. A ...

JARWENG, South Sudan (AP) — Nobel Prize-winning peacemaker Jimmy Carter spent nearly four decades waging war to eliminate an ancient parasite plaguing t ...