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A woman wears a face mask as she walks past a poster showing how to avoid the H7N9 avian influenza virus, by a road in Beijing, April 24, 2013.

Bird Flu Costs in China Set at $6.5 Billion

Meanwhile, consumers shun chicken, health officials make gains in controlling deadly virus More

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New iPhone App Speeds Care of Heart Attack Victims

App designed to help emergency medical technicians diagnose a particularly deadly form of heart attack, send information quickly to hospitals More

A child from the Central African Republic receives a measles vaccine in a refugee camp set up by the UNHCR in Nangungue, eastern Cameroon, April 12, 2013.

UN Works to Contain Disease Epidemics in Two African Countries

Measles in Central African Republic and cholera in Niger devastate at risk communitiesMore

Patients waiting for AIDS treatment in Kampala, Uganda (2012 photo)

UN: AIDS Deaths Down, Treatment Up in Africa

Number of Africans who receive anti-retroviral drugs rose from less than 1 million in 2005 to more than 7 million last year More

A new study shows that coffee may provide protection against a dangerous liver disease (Creative Commons, Courtesy: waferboard)

Coffee May Protect Against Liver Disease

Study may shed light on other autoimmune diseases of liver More

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A health worker explains birth control at a clinic outside Juba, South Sudan. (H. McNeish for VOA)

Poor Countries Lack Modern Contraception

Guttmacher Institute says many couples now desire smaller families
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Scientists Race to Contain Malaria: New Discoveries, More Resistance

Scientists Race to Contain Malaria: New Discoveries, More Resistance

World Health Organization is warning about dire consequences if drug-resistant form of malaria spreads beyond southeast Asia
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A young man lights a marijuana cigarette during a demonstration demanding a new law on cannabis in Montevideo, May 8, 2013.

Study Finds Marijuana Helps Control Blood Sugar, Waistlines

Study reported that participants using marijuana in the previous month had the lowest levels of fasting insulin, higher 'good' cholesterol
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Hassana Ousmane rests her head against the bed where her 21-month-old daughter, Zeinab, suffering from malaria, rests at the Princess Marie Louise Children

Malaria-Infected Mosquitoes More Attracted to Humans

Each year, malaria infects more than 200 million people worldwide, and claims an estimated 660,000 lives
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Soldiers clean a backyard to prevent the spread of yellow fever in San Lorenzo, Paraguay, Feb 19, 2008.

WHO: Yellow Fever 'Booster' Unnecessary

WHO's group of experts on immunization believes one dose of vaccination is enough to provide life-long immunity against yellow fever
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Each red dot on this screen shot from the Ventus website represents a power plant. (Ventus Project)

Citizen Scientists Map Global Emissions

Power plants account for more than 40 percent of carbon dioxide emissions
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Plastinated human body exhibit during a media viewing for the exhibition "The Human Body" in Ostend, Belgium, June 15, 2012 file photo.

Struggling With Math? Plug in to Improve

Using 'transcranial random noise stimulation,' Oxford University cognitive neuroscience researchers boost math performance
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Doctors Say Not All Women with Jolie Condition Need Preventive Mastectomies

They say careful monitoring of women with Jolie's genetic mutation may be adequate in some cases
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