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U.S. gives World Health Organization $4 million to combat TB in India. (Deutsche Press-Agentur via Monsters and Critics) Civil war allows river blindness to regain a foothold in half a dozen African countries. (Reuters AlertNet) Blood-banking scandal emerges in Kazakhstan...

It sure didn't take long for some far-left evironmental groups to take aim at the World Health Organization's recent limited endorsement of DDT for indoor spraying of homes against mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite. Meeting in Budapest, Hungary, a...

Brain Drain. The movement of doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers out of the Western Pacific in search of better pay and greater advancement is now a bigger problem than lack of funding in providing adequate healthcare in many areas....

GEORGES GOBET / AFP Dr. Monty Jones with a jar of NERICA sprouts at an Ivory Coast lab in 2002 One of the highlights of reporting my story “Seeds of Hope” in this week’s issue of TIME was getting to...