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The Spread of Measles in the Americas
Why falling immunisation rates in the US and Brazil are to blame

Lymphatic Filariasis in India
The painful and disfiguring disease also known as elephantiasis

Suspension of government support for the HPV vaccine in Japan
Why false safety scares mean the vaccine is not currently being proactively recommended

Is Expressing Anger Associated with Good or Bad Health?
Why the association between anger and health depends on your culture

The Impact of the Ebola Crisis on Mental Health in Sierra Leone
How people are managing emotionally living in a country left in limbo by the Ebola crisis

The Mysterious Sleeping Sickness of a Kazakh Village
A disease outbreak that's causing residents of Kalachi to sleep - often for over 24 hours

Criminal Behaviour in Neurodegenerative Disease Patients
The patients blamed for committing crimes when in fact they have a form of dementia

Babies’ Minds
What influences the mind of a tiny newborn baby and do infants really get the joke?

Fertility on a Shoestring
Infertility treatment at a fraction of the usual cost in South Africa

A New Test for Earlier Diagnosis of Lung Cancer?
Doctors use pure light on the cheek cells of patients to test for cancer