Toilets 'R' Him: Jack Sim Wants A Potty In Every Pad
Jack Sim's career is in the toilet — literally.The 57-year-old Singaporean made his fortune in the construction industry when he was in his 40s. And he wanted to make a meaningful contribution to the...
View ArticleMe, Myself And The Loo: A Woman's Future Can Rest On A Toilet
What does it mean to have a toilet?We in the West don't spend much time pondering that question (on or off the toilet)."It's something that's always in the background that keeps everything else...
View ArticleGilead Buys Shortcut For FDA Drug Review For $125 Million
How much is a fast track for the Food and Drug Administration review of a new drug worth?
View ArticleAn NPR Photographer Looks Ebola In The Eye
Her eyes met the camera. She was there. And yet she wasn't there.That's how NPR photographer David Gilkey remembers the moment last Saturday when he took a picture of Baby Sesay, a 45-year-old...
View ArticleIndian Shopkeepers Greet Wal-Mart's Expansion Plans With Protests
A few hundred hawkers and street vendors gathered Wednesday on the side of a dusty, busy road in the northern Indian city of Gurgaon, a few miles from the capital, New Delhi. Some wore black headbands...
View ArticleThe Whole World Is Fat! And That Ends Up Costing $2 Trillion A Year
Obesity used to be an issue primarily in well-off countries. It was one of those things flippantly dismissed as a "first-world problem." Now people are packing on the pounds all over the planet.
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In Liberia, A New Focus On Tracking Down Rural Ebola Cases
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We're going now to Liberia where the U.S. military has finished construction on its second Ebola treatment...
View ArticleThe Viagra Of The Himalayas Brings In Big Bucks And Big Problems
People live for — and die because of — the "Viagra of the Himalayas."That's the nickname for one of the weirdest fungi around.It starts with the larva of the ghost moth — a caterpillar that lives...
View ArticleAn Ebola Clinic Figures Out A Way To Start Beating The Odds
One reason the Ebola virus is so terrifying is that it's so lethal. Researchers estimate that the strain circulating in West Africa is killing upward of 70 percent of those it infects. Even among those...
View ArticlePlague Outbreak In Madagascar Spreads To Its Capital
An outbreak of the plague has sickened at least 119 people and killed 40 in Madagascar, the World Health Organization reports Friday.The outbreak started back in August in a rural village, WHO said....
View ArticleAnesthesia Miracle: No Power, No Oxygen Tanks, No Problem
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Ebola Gatekeeper: 'When The Tears Stop, You Continue The Work'
Wencke Petersen came to Liberia in late August to do what she normally does for Doctors Without Borders in hotspots all over the world — manage supplies.But the supplies she was meant to organize...
View ArticleHello Flowers, Bye-Bye Stray Dogs: Nepal Preps For South Asian Summit
Katmandu is giving itself a facelift.Tomorrow is the opening of the 18th summit meeting of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. Seven regional heads of state, whose countries are home...
View ArticleEbola In Remote Liberia, Through The Eyes Of A Local Health Worker
Even as encouraging reports come out of Liberia that Ebola cases appear to be leveling off or declining, it's not the full story. In recent weeks, there was a major outbreak of Ebola in scattered...
View ArticleAs Ebola Pingpongs In Liberia, Cases Disappear Into The Jungle
There's a new phase of Ebola in Liberia. Epidemiologists call it pingponging.Back in March, the disease was found in the rural areas. Then as people came to the capital to seek care, it started growing...
View ArticleEbola Is Changing Course In Liberia. Will The U.S. Military Adapt?
The Ebola outbreak started in rural areas, but by June it had reached Liberia's capital, Monrovia.By August, the number of people contracting the Ebola virus in the country was doubling every week. The...
View ArticleHissing And Sighing: The Lament Of Sex Workers In Sierra Leone
When a man drives by the strip at Lumley Beach in downtown Freetown at night, he'll probably hear a sharp hiss. That's not an unusual sound in Sierra Leone. People hiss instead of whistling — to get...
View ArticleSchool For Husbands Gets Men To Talk About Family Size
It's a bunch of guys sitting around talking.About the benefits of birth control.About how a woman should take care of herself when she's pregnant.About breast-feeding.You know, the kind of things guys...
View ArticleTest Your Medical Smarts: Does This Patient Have Ebola?
Ebola is elusive and stealthy, so a medical degree doesn't automatically prepare a health worker to figure out if a new patient is a likely Ebola case.The symptoms mimic other diseases. Fever, chills...
View ArticleTraditional African Communities Say Female Genital Mutilation Is An Essential...
Earlier this year the Obama Administration called for the eradication of female genital mutilation and announced a major study measuring its prevalence in the US.
View ArticleWhat Should You Do If A Fly Gets Into Your Anti-Ebola Goggles?
So you're in Ebola treatment clinic. Your body is covered head-to-toe in a plastic protective suit, a hood, goggles, gloves and rubber boots. Then, all of a sudden, your nose itches.What should you...
View ArticleCampaign Rallies Resume In Liberia, Raising Uncertainty Over Ebola Risk
In Liberia, the number of new cases of Ebola is going down, but the risk has not been eliminated. To help contain the disease, schools are set to be closed until March.But a national Senate election,...
View ArticleMr. Right Won't Get Lost, Knows How To Pack Bags In A Trunk
Men seem to have an uncanny knack for loading a half-dozen suitcases and knapsacks into even the smallest compact car, turning the bags like puzzle pieces to arrive at the most efficient fit.Many men...
View ArticleEbola In The Air: What Science Says About How The Virus Spreads
Here's an Ebola puzzle for you: If the virus isn't airborne, why do doctors and nurses need to wear full protective suits, with face masks, while treating patients?After we dug through studies and...
View ArticleYour Odds Of Surviving Cancer Depend Very Much On Where You Live
In the United States, 9 out of 10 kids diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia will live. In Jordan, the survival rate is 16 percent.And while cervical cancer patients have a five-year survival...
View ArticleIf Everybody Had An Ocean, Could We Surf Our Way To Mental Health?
Lwandile Mntanywa is zipping up his wet suit. The tall, soft-spoken high school junior comes to Cape Town's Monwabisi Beach almost every day after school and starts running when he sees the water. "I...
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President Hopes To Draw Attention, And Funding, To Ebola Research
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Ebola Knocked West African Countries Off Development Ladder
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View ArticleOne Village's Story: How Ebola Began And How It Ends
There's a clearing in the jungle in central Liberia that now serves as an Ebola burial ground. Every day, a woman who works as a nurse in the nearby Ebola treatment unit, or ETU, changes from her...
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