When one thinks of solutions to global poverty, eye care rarely makes the list. But it should, and Seva Foundation has the ...

Humans have been reshaping the environment for at least 10,000 years. But the Anthropocene is the name given to the specific ...

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Monkeypox is a disease caused by the monkeypox virus, a pathogen closely related to variola virus, which causes smallpox.

Joseph Warren was a key leader of the American Revolution, mobilizing troops and managing a circle of spies. But he's mainly ...

Through their leadership, the organisation enabled the most consequential transition of the 20th century: from an age of ...

The medical achievements of the 20th century demonstrate how global health infrastructure is key to public health.

Thus begins Thomas Levenson’s thought-provoking book, “So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs — ...

In May 1763, an alliance of Delaware and other tribes laid siege to Fort Pitt in present-day Pittsburgh to drive British ...

The U.S. saw more than 20,000 mpox cases and nearly six dozen deaths during the 2022 global mpox outbreak. San Francisco was ...

One of them was only fifteen days old. Another Has Smallpox: One more case of smallpox has turned up, George W. Rexford, 721 Wall St., being the third victim of the disease in Sioux City ...