global health

Is the Menstrual Cup Going Mainstream?

By Mandy Oaklander

Obesity Now Costs the World $2 Trillion a Year

By Tessa Berenson Rogers

Global Youth Population Swells to Record 1.8 Billion

By Dan Kedmey

Your State Bird Could Be Gone By 2080

By World Science Festival
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Plant-Based Diet Is Best for the Planet, New Science Says

Alternative diets could, if widely adopted, reduce global agricultural greenhouse gas emissions

By Elizabeth Grossman / CivilEats.com

WHO Chief Says Ebola Response 'Did Not Match' Scale of the Outbreak

TIME sits down with WHO Director-General Margaret Chan

By Vivienne Walt

Watch TIME's Jeffrey Kluger Discuss How to Eradicate Polio

People in three countries still suffer from the disease

By Justin Worland

Raising the Dead: Lack of Space Forces Cemeteries Up

From Israel to Brazil, elevated cemeteries are providing the final resting place for thousands of people as space runs out at ground level

By NBC News

Why Malala Gives Me Hope

It’s hard to stir up activism with images of empty classrooms, but the lack of education is among the world’s greatest crises today

By Barbara Bush

Ebola Death Toll Tops 4,000

More than 8,300 total cases have been confirmed

By Justin Worland

Plagues on the Poor: What Ebola Can Learn From Malaria

If the U.S. spent more money on disease prevention and clinics—and less on vaccines and drugs—everyone in the world would stand to benefit

By Karen M. Masterson

Ebola Death Toll Tops 3,000

More than 6,500 cases have been confirmed

By Justin Worland

Climate Action is a Health Priority

The addition of human and planetary health priorities to our fight against climate change is a bold - but necessary - step

By Judith Rodin

Masses Demand Climate Action

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, former Vice President Al Gore, and movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Edward Norton all attended

By Charlotte Alter / New York

Early Deaths Could Fall By 40% in the Next 20 Years

According to researchers writing in The Lancet, we’re doing a good job of reducing the number of premature deaths—those occurring in people under 70. And if current trends continue with some improvements, such early deaths...

By Mandy Oaklander

Watch a Science Cop Take on Donald Trump

TIME's Jeffrey Kluger takes on The Donald for crimes against science

By Michael Lester and Jeffrey Kluger

How Families Around the World Break the Ramadan Fast

From Istanbul to Sydney to Beijing, here's what Muslim families are eating to break the fast

By TIME Staff

Aid Group: Cholera Threatens Thousands in South Sudan

"Children are especially vulnerable."

By Hannah Goldberg

A Third of the World is Now Obese or Overweight

No country on earth has reduced obesity rates in more than three decades

By Denver Nicks

White House, Congress Should Remember Pope Francis During Budget Process

Remember the world's poor throughout the federal budget process

By Emily Conron
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