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Building a Health Care Network in a Ravaged Land
As a boy 20 years ago, PopTech Social Innovation Fellow Rajesh Panjabi fled civil war in Liberia with his family. Now he’s back, helping create a community health care network to serve a ravaged...
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Distractibility May Be Caused By Excess Grey Matter
A model showing human brain-cell action is lighted by fiber optics; photo by John Schneeberger and Larry Kinney Being called a brainiac may be a compliment but when it comes to gray matter, a person...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took action on Wednesday, January 4 to ban certain uses of one class of drugs, cephalosporins, in raising cattle, pigs, chickens, and turkeys....
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Touring the Hospital of Tomorrow
From: Top Masters in Healthcare (Click the image above for a larger version) Hospitals in the developed world rely on increasingly advanced technology, which is helping practitioners to treat a wide...
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Does This Look Infected? Medical Procedures Then and Now
By Kevin Fletcher So many things have changed in medicine over the past few centuries. Procedures that used to take hours of grueling, grotesque labor can now be done in just a matter of minutes and...
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Tadpole Sees Through Eyeball on Its Tail
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet—but does an eye in any other place see as sharply? The answer may be yes—a finding that could help people with blindness or other eye disorders, a new...
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Your Suggestions for Urine—Please Don’t Try This at Home
Photograph by Alan Schein, Corbis Last week, I wrote a post about some strange new uses for urine. It turns out, I had only scratched the surface. Many of you readers (thanks for your input!) shared...
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Synthetic Chemical From Bears Could Stall Onset of Diabetes
A black bear cub climbs a tree in Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Photograph by Gavriel Jecan, Corbis. The American Association for the Advancement of Science wrote about the connection...
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February 15, 2014: California’s Drought, Inside the Human Brain, a 1,000 Mile...
California is having the worst drought in 500 years. Climatologists discover that the 20th century was wetter than average, and that the climate is now shifting back to drier conditions. (Photo by...
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Geography in the News: Ebola Terror
By Neal Lineback, Baker Perry and Mandy Lineback Gritzner, Geography in the NewsTM Ebola Virus Spreads to West Africa Dangerous viral hemorrhagic diseases, particularly including the deadly Ebola, are...
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A Healer’s Meridian: Where Eastern and Western Healing Intersect
Young Explorer Sadia Ali. (Photo by Andrew Sampson) Sadia Ali is a Young Explorer who seeks to unravel the conflict between “Western” and “Eastern” medicine, and to illustrate how their intersection...
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Teen Pharmacist: An Unregulated Distribution of Drugs
A teenage pharmacist watches television as he answers questions about valium’s side effects upon distribution. (Photo by Sadia Ali) We spent the last 11 hours motorcycling across the country to Na Kae...
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A Hives Outbreak and Nothing Left to Lose
Sadia Ali is a Young Explorer who seeks to unravel the conflict between “Western” and “Eastern” medicine, and to illustrate how their intersection can be beneficial to everyone in providing more...
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When I Grow Up: A Day With Our Next-Generation Monks
Sadia Ali is a National Geographic Young Explorers Grantee who seeks to unravel the conflict between “Western” and “Eastern” medicine, and to illustrate how their intersection can be beneficial to...
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Through the Eyes of the Locals
Sadia Ali is a National Geographic Young Explorers Grantee who seeks to unravel the conflict between “Western” and “Eastern” medicine, and to illustrate how their intersection can be beneficial to...
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How can you eat, eat, eat–and stay healthy? Ask a blind cavefish.
Can any species eat as much as it wants–and stay healthy? Yes: blind cavefish, scientists are finding out. (Photograph: Nicolas Rohner) Barbecues and clambakes. Ice cream and berry pies. Summer is the...
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How & Why Consuming Shark Fins & Meat Can Put both Humans and Sharks at Risk
I have previously blogged about the how the demand for shark fin soup poses a large threat to shark populations. However, newly published research has found high concentrations of toxins linked to...
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All Plants Are Medicine; We Just Need To (re)Learn How
“All plants are medicine,” Dr. Jeetpal Negi, the herbal gardener at Navdanya, exclaims proudly with a hint of mystery to his voice. Dr. Negi bends down to examine a seemingly mundane but prolific weed,...
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How can you eat, eat, eat–and stay healthy? Ask a blind cavefish.
Can any species eat as much as it wants–and stay healthy? Yes: blind cavefish, scientists are finding out. (Photograph: Nicolas Rohner) Barbecues and clambakes. Ice cream and berry pies. Summer is the...
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How & Why Consuming Shark Fins & Meat Can Put both Humans and Sharks at Risk
I have previously blogged about the how the demand for shark fin soup poses a large threat to shark populations. However, newly published research has found high concentrations of toxins linked to...
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