Early presentation helps in cancer treatment
As Monday marks World Cancer Day, medical experts have said patients who present the disease early have high chance of survival.
They advised women above...
Food system transformation needed for human and planetary health
Nearly a billion people around the world are going hungry, and nearly two billion are undermining their health by eating too much of the...
For disease risk, is it genes or the environment? Probably both
It’s a question that has long intrigued epidemiologists: How much of a role do genes play in the onset of diseases and how much...
A look back at Nigeria’s success in battling AIDS
Nigeria is home to one of the world’s largest populations of people living with HIV. And while health care workers in the country are often...
A lifesaving therapy—and the researcher who helped launch it
Oral rehydration therapy (ORT)—a mixture of water, sugar, and salt that is remarkably effective at rehydrating people with cholera or other diarrheal diseases—is credited with saving...
