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On a shelf in Maria Jesus Gonzalez's home in Toledo, Spain, there is a small frame with a remarkable image. It is an echogram of a freshly-transplanted kidney. Her transplanted [...]

Q: Why did you form Smoke-Free Kids? A: I formed it with the goal of giving children knowledge, so that they would never try or use any form of tobacco [...]

Dr Marion Nestle received her BA in 1959 from the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States of America. She earned a doctorate in molecular biology, also from Berkeley, [...]

Q: How has armed conflict changed and what effect do these cha nges have on the mental health of soldiers? A: We have stumbled into a new era of conflict. [...]

Q: Do African countries need the same level of flu vaccination as believed to be beneficial in non-tropical parts of the world? A: Most countries don't have a clear idea [...]

A group of small children in the low-income west African country of Sierra Leone stand in a line. Each is holding a poster with the slogan: 'Prevent the new fresh [...]

Q: When did you realize you were depressed? A: One Sunday morning in August 1998, I couldn't get out of bed. The minister of foreign affairs, a close friend of [...]

For Stephen and Linda Schneider, the game was up. The husband and wife, he a doctor and she a registered nurse, had been running a 'pill mill'--an illegal prescription drug [...]

Sari Setiogi was worried. In the wake of the Japanese earthquake back in March 2011, panic about the effects of a possible radiation leak at the Fukushima nuclear plant had [...]

The article presents an interview with Rajiv N. Rimal, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. When asked how useful a tool social media is when it comes to public health, Rimal says that it has potential to bring people together. He comments on an underuse of social media in public health. Rimal believes that more attention needs to be placed on drug companies that use social media to promote their products.