Tag: Public Health
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Loading…Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’
The Victorians called it ‘pernicious vomiting of pregnancy’, but modern medicine has offered no end to the torture of hyperemesis gravidarum – until now
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In an Age of Climate Change, How Do We Cope with Floods?
The deaths in the Texas Hill Country are a tragic testament to the force of a raging river. Flood-stricken Vermont has a radical plan to counter the threat it faces.
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The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children
Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine.
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She was told her twin sons wouldn’t survive. Texas law made her give birth anyway.
Miranda Michel, 26, couldn’t leave the state for an abortion. But she also couldn’t bear the idea of carrying a nonviable pregnancy to term.
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Disneyland of the Dead
London’s Highgate Cemetery shows us just how hard it is to keep the dead buried.
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The sludge king: how one man turned an industrial wasteland into his own El Dorado
When a Romanian businessman returned to his hometown and found a city blighted by mining waste, he hatched a plan to restore it to its former glory. He became a local hero, but now prosecutors accuse of him a running a multimillion dollar fraud
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Why China Won’t Stop the Fentanyl Trade
The opioid that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year has become a source of political leverage that Beijing won’t easily give up.
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Why Can’t Americans Sleep?
Insomnia has become a public-health emergency.
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The power of the ‘C’ word
Saying the word ‘cancer’ changes a person’s life and can lead to overtreatment and fear. Is the word too hot to use at all?
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Swat Team
Mosquito larvae, says Erin Mordecai, are cute. But they grow into humankind’s deadliest foes—which is why she and her colleagues are trying to figure out where on Earth the little buggers are about to strike.