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Cervical cancer screening in Freetown. Sierra Leone

Health The World

6. December 2024

We’re Winning the Battle Against Cervical Cancer

Four years after the launch of a global strategy to end cervical cancer, the vast majority of countries are putting in place concrete measures like human papillomavirus vaccination, HPV testing, and awareness campaigns that are paying off.

Mali woman watches her son who gets malaria treatment

Health Mali

5. December 2024

World First: Malaria Vaccine Offers Long-Term Protection to Expecting Moms

A recently published study shows that a malaria vaccine administered to Malian women anticipating pregnancy increasingly protected expecting mothers before and during pregnancy, a world first.

Health The World

26. November 2024

This Cancer Treatment Could Also Cure Lupus!

A treatment developed to kill malignant blood cancer cells has been experimentally, and successfully, administered to patients suffering from lupus, giving hope to millions of a durable cure for the autoimmune disease.

Society Oman

22. November 2024

Historic Social Security Plans for This Nation!

Oman has implemented a new social protection law that could lead to the creation of a universal social security system for Omani nationals and residents, including poorer socioeconomic groups and migrant workers.

A young girl's eyes are checked for trachoma during a survey in Vietnam

Health Vietnam

12. November 2024

Waving Goodbye to This Eye Disease!

Following decades of concerted efforts, Vietnam managed to successfully eradicate trachoma as a public health problem, preventing millions of citizens from falling prey to the world’s leading cause of blindness.

Health The World

10. November 2024

Numbers Don’t Lie: Medical Investments Save Many, Many Lives

According to a newly released report, as of the end of 2023, massive investments led to saving 65 million lives and cutting the combined death rate from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria by 61% since 2002.

Technology Canada

8. November 2024

We May Soon Be Able to Undo DNA Damage

Recently, researchers discovered a protein that has the groundbreaking ability to stop DNA damage.

Young woman in Jordan with hijab and pink balloon

Health Jordan

6. November 2024

A Global Milestone: This Country Is the First to Eliminate Leprosy Disease

Jordan has officially become the first country in the world to receive the World Health Organization's verification for the elimination of leprosy.

Unrecognizable Young Woman, Wearing a Pink Pajama, holding her Birth Control Pills on her bed.

Health Canada

5. November 2024

Unprecedented Access to Prescription Drugs Across This Nation

Canada will expand its publicly funded national pharmacare program to include contraception and diabetes medication as one in five Canadians is struggling to pay for prescription drugs.

complete map of neurons in an adult brain

Health The World

2. November 2024

A Leap Forward to Understanding How the Brain Works

A milestone in neuroscience has been achieved with the world’s first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult fly brain, along with the 50 million connections between them, a key step in understanding how brains work.