Carlo Ratti of MIT designed this "supermarket of the future" exhibit. If you move a hand close to a product, a digital display lights up, providing information on origin, nutritional value and carbon footprint. Courtesy of COOP Italia hide caption
Global Health NPR news on world health issues, disease control, public health and sanitation, and health education. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Global Health
Sunday
Alcohol consumption is low in Asia — but it definitely happens. Above: Vietnamese friends imbibe at a open-air beer bar in Ho Chi Minh City. Hoang Dinh Nam/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Saturday
In this photo from 2014, passengers walk past the Middle East respiratory syndrome quarantine area at Manila's International Airport in the Phillipines. The virus is now raising public concern in South Korea. Aaron Favila/AP hide caption
Friday
The man who died of Lassa fever flew from West Africa to New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
New Jersey Lassa Fever Death Reveals Holes In Ebola Monitoring System
Thursday
Health workers collect the body of a cholera victim in Petionville, Haiti, February 2011. The cholera outbreak in Haiti began in October 2010. Nearly 9,000 people have died. David Gilkey/NPR hide caption
A new smartphone app gives a close-up view of a patient's eye. Screengrab from video by Peek Vision, produced in collaboration with Sony Mobile. hide caption
Wednesday
Patients receive treatment at the Chest Disease Hospital in Srinagar, India. The country has one of the highest rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the world, in part because antibiotics for the disease are poorly regulated by the government. Dar Yasin/AP hide caption
As Antibiotic Resistance Spreads, WHO Plans Strategy To Fight It
Tuesday
A single Lassa fever virus particle, stained to show surface spikes — they're yellow — that help the virus infect its host cells. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine hide caption
How can women in rural Nigeria get the care they need? That's what Columbia University graduate students in public health asked residents of Kadawawa, Nigeria. Courtesy of Alastair Ager and Alissa Pires hide caption
Friday
National Geographic writer and explorer Dan Buettner studies the world's longest-lived peoples and their lifestyles. Courtesy TEDxTC hide caption
Thursday
Village chiefs, residents and government officials take to the streets to celebrate the Chienge district's accomplishment of bringing sanitation to every home. Mark Maseko/Courtesy of UNICEF Zambia hide caption
The Ebola outbreak "overwhelmed" the World Health Organization and made it clear the agency must change, WHO's director-general, Dr. Margaret Chan, said Monday in Geneva. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
WHO Calls For $100 Million Emergency Fund, Doctor 'SWAT Team'
Wednesday
Jenny Tenorio Gallegos, 35, in Lima, Peru, is being treated for drug-resistant TB. The treatment lasts two years and may rob her of her hearing. Jason Beaubien/NPR hide caption
She's Got One Of The Toughest Diseases To Cure. And She's Hopeful
Tuesday
Families harvest poppy bulbs in the Badakhshan province of Afghanistan. To collect the opium, they score the bulbs and let the milky substance ooze out. The dried residue contains about 10 percent morphine. David Guttenfelder/AP/National Geographic hide caption
Researchers meet participants: (from left) investigator Jose Luis Roca; Dr. Ernesto Ortiz; study participants Rainer Leon and his mother, Rina Leon Chanbilla; and nurse Jennifer Rampas. Jason Beaubien/NPR hide caption