CUPERTINO, June 13 -- For most women, perimenopause begins quietly - irregular cycles, disrupted sleep, a sense that something has shifted - and ends, months or years later, with a diagnosis that arri... Read More
New Delhi, June 12 -- NAIROBI - For Caitlin Brady, the country director of the Danish Refugee Council in Congo, the news was the thing that changed every calculation. Ebola had reached Kpanga. "We ar... Read More
New Delhi, June 12 -- ATLANTA - James Garrow has been planning for this moment for eighteen months. As Philadelphia's deputy health commissioner, he has run drills, built surveillance protocols, and s... Read More
New Delhi, June 11 -- The hardest part of reading an ultrasound has never been the machine. It has been the brain behind it. the distance between a student squinting at a screen and a veteran who see... Read More
MAIDUGURI, June 10 -- The deaths in Borno this time are not from bombs or bullets. They are from water. A cholera outbreak tearing through Nigeria's northeastern Borno state has killed at least 74 peo... Read More
WASHINGTON, June 9 -- For the better part of three decades, Americans reaching for sunscreen have been handed a weaker shield against the sun than the one sold routinely in European and Asian pharmaci... Read More
NANYUKI, June 9 -- The United States is building a place to hold its own sick citizens on Kenyan soil, and Kenyans are being shot for objecting to it. Washington is racing to finish an Ebola quarantin... Read More
BUNIA, June 9 -- The number on a whiteboard at the WHO field office in Bunia keeps climbing. As of Monday, it read 550. That is the confirmed case count in the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone -... Read More
KAMPALA, June 8 -- At the Mpondwe crossing between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the gate that families, traders and medical referrals pass through every day has been shut for nearly tw... Read More
New Delhi, June 7 -- The pain started at 19. Jabbing sensations in the pelvis. Persistent headaches. A constant low-grade malaise that Andy L., a philosophy student at the University of Southampton in... Read More