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Nodding Disease with hallmarks of Kony 2012

As the world was engrossed in watching the Kony 2012 viral video, released by the invisible children depicting the atrocities of Joseph Kony in Northern Uganda, An Invisible disease called the Nodding disease was taking its toll on the people of Northern Uganda. Not many in the international media mentioned the nodding disease, even when it dep...

Public Harassment on the Rise

"It feeds into a fear of rape and sexual violence and has a harmful effect on broader issues of equality" * * * "it has an impact on their self-esteem and body image" as well as a sense of safety and autonomy over self."

CDC Lowers Lead Limits

Maternal mortality rates, healthy eating, statins for all, more nuance on HDL cholesterol and more from our Daily Briefing.

Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development: In conversation about health

I've been covering conversations about the upcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development with a particular interest in efforts to add health to instiutional framework. 

Brazilian Blowout: California Fines Company $600,000 for Toxic Hair Straightening Treatment

Toxic hair straightening, a new drug for cystic fibrosis, a religious battle over birth control and more from our Daily Briefing.

Misplaced metaphors and other things that can wreck health translations

Global health and international development blogger Alanna Shaikh gives tips for translating and working with translators to talk about health more clearly.

We are here! We are here! We are here!

How the way the US, Canada and the EU are acting towards the upcoming UN NCD Summit in September reminds me of "Horton Hears a Who!" by Dr. Seuss... and what we can do to change it.

The Politics of Health: Ideas for covering a famine

The embattled U.N. World Food Program reports that 13 million people have been affected by drought and famine in the Horn of Africa. It's a huge health story, but how can journalists report on it well?

Caveat Emptor: Direct to Consumer (DTC) Marketing for Testosterone Replacement Therapy Soars

Millions of American women were put on hormone replacement therapy before science evaluated the benefits and harms. Will men over 45 try testosterone replacement therapy too? Aggressive marketing of testosterone is on the rise.

Orange County park history is a tale of two counties

Tracy Wood reports on why parks are so scarce in one half of California's Orange County, but not the other half.

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