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As the UN General Assembly's High-Level Week kicks off, global health reform is back on the agenda, but the real test will not be in New York conference rooms. It will be in whether reform reaches the last mile.

A catastrophic flood in Nepal has killed thousands already. Now, a grave public health crisis threatens.

Bangladesh bears one of the highest cholera burdens in the world, but a new vaccination strategy is putting its public health system on the front foot. 

Wildfires across Borneo and Sumatra are raising health risks for local populations, with some health offices reporting rising rates of respiratory disease.

Roberta Kwok’s “Lost in Curiosity” makes the case for luck and hard work over eureka moments in advancing science.

In many communities in Yobe State, northeast Nigeria, insecurity still puts a brake on everyday life. But military escorts are helping health workers to get kids protected once more.

Smallpox DNA from two people buried in Chile reveals the virus’s arrival through European colonisation – but recreating it would require deliberate laboratory work.

Malaria, killer of hundreds of thousands of children each year, is especially dangerous to children with the inherited blood disorder.

It’s deadly, and it’s becoming less predictable. Health workers on the Lassa fever isolation ward say, “We cannot let our guard down.”