Health

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Nine countries eliminated a disease in 2024. Here’s how Pakistan pulled it off — fulfilling a young boy’s dream of eliminating blindness caused by bacterial infections. (Image credit: Clockwise from …

Turkeys at a farm as California declares state of emergency to prevent new public health crisis on Bird flu in Pescadero, California, in December. Anadolu/Anadolu via Getty Images/Anadolu via Getty …

In 2024, the World Health Organization certified the elimination of a disease in nine countries. We focus on how Pakistan got rid of trachoma, which can cause blindness.

Two veterans who had repeated exposure to blasts developed the same rare brain malformation. (This story first aired on All Things Considered on December 27, 2024.) DANIEL ESTRIN, HOST: Military …

Emotional scars are fresh in Western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene. Physical rebuilding is beginning, and so is investment in the emotional health of people in the area.

Clockwise from upper left: Chicken-sizing will keep you fit. Educator Mo Pandiarajan excitedly shows his students a view of the specimen in a foldscope — a microscope made of paper. …

Flavored varieties of disposable electronic cigarette devices are on display in a shop in Brussels on Dec. 12, 2024, ahead of Belgium’s ban on the sale of disposable vapes as …

The most popular Instagram reels from our Goats and Soda team: Bolivia’s bold women skateboarders, ponytail-making lessons, a perplexing COVID situation, fog harvesting. Scenes from popular Instagram posts from Goats …

Leanne Clark-Shirley has always loved to dance. She goes to nightclubs near her home in Durham, North Carolina, on a regular basis. But in recent years she’s detected a change …