Foxtrot and Gemma Snowdon of the U.N.'s World Food Programme, who rescued the lost 4-week-old puppy. Jason Beaubien/NPR hide caption
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Parts of the Cape Fear River near Fayetteville, N.C., are contaminated with a PFAS compound called GenX. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is surveying residents in the area about their health. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption
Scientists Dig Into Hard Questions About The Fluorinated Pollutants Known As PFAS
Clemantine Wamariya, who fled Rwanda as a girl, is now a U.S. citizen. She is a human rights advocate and a speaker. Steve Jennings/Getty Images for Free The Children hide caption
The anti-HIV drug dolutegravir is effective — but may carry a risk for pregnant women. Science Source hide caption
Rohingya refugees use a mock elephant during a training session on how to respond to elephant incursions at the Kutupalong refugee camp. The massive refugee camp sits in what used to be a migratory path for elephants moving between Myanmar and Bangladesh. Munir Uz Zaman/Getty Images hide caption
Trying to make the world a better place: (left to right) Skoll Award winners Gregory Rockson of mPharma, Nicola Galombik and Maryana Iskander of Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, Nancy Lublin of Crisis Text Line, Bright Simons of mPedigree and Julie Cordua of Thorn. Greg Smolonski/Skoll hide caption
Siddharth Dube, a longtime public health advocate, has written a memoir: An Indefinite Sentence: A Personal History of Outlawed Love and Sex. Hindustan Times/Getty Images hide caption
Immunizations are one of the most cost-effective health interventions. Yet some vaccines are too expensive to be distributed in low- and middle-income countries. Jurgen Batz/Getty Image hide caption
Sodul Amin, 30, is one of tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees who've gotten chickenpox since December. The highly contagious disease spreads easily in the overcrowded refugee camps. Jason Beaubien/NPR hide caption
The Jankara market in Lagos, Nigeria. A group called Market March Movement is working to end street harassment in shopping districts across the country. Frédéric Soltan/via Getty Images hide caption
The pronounced curve of this toe bone — the proximal phalanx — from a specimen of Homo luzonensis, an early human found in a Philippine cave, looks more like it came from tree-climbing Australopithecus than from a modern human, scientists say. Callao Cave Archaeology Project hide caption
Ancient Bones And Teeth Found In A Philippine Cave May Rewrite Human History
Workers repair the roof of a small shop while a woman hangs clothing to dry among debris in Beira, Mozambique. The city was badly damaged after Cyclone Idai hit on March 14. Guillem Sartorio/Getty Images hide caption
Tichanai Mutungwe, a farmworker in Zimbabwe, couldn't save his daughter from the flood waters. Injured and grieving, he says he must get back to work soon so he can support his family. Tendai Marima for NPR hide caption
Dread Scott's The Blue Wall of Violence, as part of the Perilous Bodies exhibit at the Ford Foundation Gallery in Manhattan. Yana Paskova for NPR hide caption
Things in Venezuela are so bad that patients who are hospitalized must bring not only their own food but also medical supplies like syringes and scalpels as well as their own soap and water, a new report says. Barcroft Media/Getty Images hide caption
Beef lanzhou noodles are a famous food in China, typically in the northwest area. Bibi's Photography/Getty Images hide caption
Poor diet is the leading risk factor for deaths from lifestyle-related diseases in the majority of the world, according to new research. John D. Buffington/Getty Images hide caption
Bad Diets Are Responsible For More Deaths Than Smoking, Global Study Finds
A new report finds that many health-care facilities in poor countries lack any sort of water supply. stockstudioX/Getty Images hide caption
Women's rights activist Cherie Blair speaks at an event in California in 2015. Last month she drew attention for her comment that "most African ladies' first sexual experience is rape." Rachel Murray/Getty Images hide caption
The figure at left is the personification of cholera, facing resistance from a group of women. This 19th century engraving is from Barcelona. PHAS/UIG/Getty Images hide caption
After a long history of civil war and corruption, many Liberians didn't trust their government's attempts to control Ebola. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption
