China competes in stem cell research
This story was originally covered by PRI's The World. For more, listen to the audio above.Scientists were impressed, recently, when researchers in China grew a new mouse from the skin cell of an adult...
View Article100-year-olds go missing in Japan
This story was originally covered by PRI's The World. For more, listen to the audio above.Japan holds a legendary status as home to some of the world's oldest people, with an estimated 40,000 citizens...
View ArticleEye exams from iPhones
This story was originally reported by PRI's The World. For more, listen to the audio above.Eye exams simply aren't available for many people. The technology used to test people's eyes is too expensive...
View ArticleLessons from smallpox eradication
This story was originally reported by PRI's The Takeaway. For more, listen to the audio above.Only one disease has ever been successfully eradicated from the earth: smallpox. In 1967, it was estimated...
View ArticleIn-vitro fertilization (IVF) for the poor
This article was originally covered by PRI's The World. For more, listen to the audio above.In-vitro fertilization is a fairly common method of aiding conception. But it's expensive, and only a small...
View ArticleAcai 'super-fruit' not so great
This story was originally reported by PRI's The World. For more, listen to the audio above.Marketers may claim that the acai berry can help you loose weight, look younger, feel healthier, and may even...
View ArticleSustainable, affordable, sanitary pads for the world
This story was originally covered by PRI's Studio 360. For more, listen to the audio above.Traveling through Mozambique in 2005, Elizabeth Scharpf had a realization. She was working with the World...
View ArticleWhat creates an epidemic?
This story was originally covered by PRI's The Takeaway. For more, listen to the audio above.Demonstrators in Haiti have been protesting a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 1,000 people and...
View ArticleSoap recycling helps Haiti
This story was originally covered by PRI's Here and Now. For more, listen to the audio above.Since October, cholera has swept through Haiti, killing more than 1,000 and hospitalizing more than 25,000...
View ArticleSouth Africa: rationing health by committee
This article was part of a series on global health rationing from PRI's The World. For more, visit RationingHealth.org.By Sheri FinkIn late August, Amos Phillips, 41, arrived by ambulance at Tygerberg...
View ArticleChina's far-from universal health care
This story was originally covered by PRI's Here and Now. For more, listen to the audio above.China recently announced that it is launching an ambitious plan to expand the nation's health care coverage....
View ArticlePrescribing nature for children
This story was originally covered by PRI's Living on Earth. For more, listen to the audio above.When nature competes with Facebook, iPads and video games, it can be hard to convince children to get...
View ArticleAlcoholism in Russia
Story by By Jessica Golloher, PRI's The World. Use player above to listen to audio.At a popular Italian restaurant near Pushkin Square in Moscow, men and women talk business over margarita pizzas,...
View ArticleRaising survival rates for children with cancer
This story first aired on the BBC World Service program, Healthcheck; use audio player above to listen to story in its entirety. In the last 50 years there has been a huge improvement in the rate of...
View ArticleTough smoking laws in Bhutan
This story was originally covered by PRI's The World. For more, listen to the audio above.By Mary Kay MagistadAnywhere else in the world, a pool hall or snooker parlor would likely be filled with...
View ArticleMexico's drug war takes emotional, psychological toll
This story was originally covered by PRI's The World. For more, listen to the audio above.by Myles EsteySince the start of Mexican President Felipe Calderon's war on drugs in 2006, more than 35,000...
View ArticleWorld No Tobacco Day: Does it help people quit smoking?
The World Health Organization has dubbed May 31 World No Tobacco Day in an effort to encourage people to quit smoking. Michael Siegel of Boston University says the old ways of trying to get people to...
View ArticleE. Coli outbreak in Europe
More than 1,000 people are infected with E. Coli in Europe, though not necessarily sick, according to Jörg Blech, who writes for the German weekly Der Spiegel. More than 300 are sick, and scientists...
View ArticleKilling a killer disease
Story from PRI's The World. Use audio player above to listen to entire report.The first disease to ever be completely eliminated from Earth was smallpox. Epidemiologist William Foege was one of the...
View ArticleIndonesia's smoking problem
Story by Sandy Hausman, The World. Use audio player above to listen to full report.When you step out of the international airport in Jakarta, it seems impossible that this could be Marlboro...
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