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Memory care patients visit during the music hour at the Ave Maria Home, an assisted living center for seniors, in Bartlett, Tennessee, on September 19, 2023.

High Blood Sugar, Hearing Loss Among Top Dementia Risks in the United States

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A study found that controlling blood sugar, getting hearing aids, and earning an education could reduce the likelihood of developing dementia

Guns that will be destroyed are displayed during an event for the International Day for the Destruction of Firearms, at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Mexico City, Mexico, on July 9, 2025.

A Roadmap to Effective Gun Violence Policy

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Countries like Australia and Colombia show paths to reducing preventable gun-violence homicides and suicides

How Indonesia's Food System Can Weather Supply-Chain Shocks

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Promoting diverse and affordable diets will keep Indonesia healthy through natural disasters, conflict, and disease outbreaks

Workers prepare meals to be distributed free for students, during the free nutritious meals program trial, at a pilot kitchen in Sukabumi, West Java province, Indonesia, September 25, 2024.

Trump's Faith-Based Push Threatens Standard Addiction Treatment

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Experts say the U.S. government's backing of religious and spiritual drug treatment ignores well-established evidence

U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order for the "Great American Recovery Initiative" to coordinate a federal government response to drug addiction and substance abuse, in Washington, DC, on January 29, 2026.

Will the UK's Generational Tobacco Ban Survive?

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Britain's ban on tobacco sales for people born after 2008 could spell the end of smoking—if regulators can figure out enforcement

A shopkeeper reaches for a packet of cigarettes, in London, England, on November 28, 2013.

Cuba's Health Care Buckles Under Fuel Blockade

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A professor of Latin American public health details how the 2026 fuel blockade has affected every domain of Cuba's health system

Two women cook dinner after Cuba's national electric grid collapsed for the second time in a week, amid the U.S.-imposed oil blockade, in Havana, Cuba, on March 21, 2026.

Busting 10 Myths About Health Taxes

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Ahead of the World Health Assembly, Resolve to Save Lives CEO Tom Frieden discusses how health taxes can raise money and improve physical well-being

A street vendor selects cigarettes for a customer, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on May 27, 2024.

Indonesia's Efforts to Lead Cervical Cancer Elimination

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The country's ambitious vaccination and treatment strategies seek to eliminate its cervical cancer burden by 2027

Women workers plant beans, in Majalaya, Indonesia, on October 12, 2017.

Birth Registration to Improve Health Equity

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Millions of newborns lack birth certificates, but governments and investors have new opportunities to build digital identification

A newborn baby's inked feet are seen after his footprints were taken for the birth certificate, at the Santa Ana public maternity hospital, in Caracas, Venezuela, on October 19, 2011.

Why Ghana Needs a Childhood Cancer Registry

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Ghana can ensure more children survive cancer by building a database linking information from public and teaching hospitals

Radiotherapist Kofi Kyei, 30, points at a tumor on an X-ray from a patient suffering from bladder cancer, at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, in Accra, Ghana, on April 24, 2012. Most of Africa's around 2,000 languages have no word for cancer. The common perception in both developing and developed countries is that it's a disease of the wealthy world, where high-fat, processed-food diets, alcohol, smoking and sedentary lifestyles fuel tumour growth. Yet there are an estimated one million new cancer cases sub-Saharan Africa will see this year - a number predicted to double to 2 million a year in the next decade. Picture taken April 24, 2012. To match Insight CANCER-AFRICA/GHANA REUTERS/Olivier Asselin (GHANA - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY)

Syrian Doctors Fight Infant Blindness After War

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Syrian American ophthalmologists are banding together to improve pediatric tests for retinopathy of prematurity

A nurse checks a premature baby at a maternity hospital, in Idlib, Syria, on February 27, 2020.

Ultra-Processed Foods Take Pointers From Big Tobacco

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Like commercial tobacco, ultra-processed foods are engineered to drive consumption and could be regulated accordingly

Breakfast cereals are displayed for sale at a grocery store, in Medford, Massachusetts, on April 22, 2025.