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The US is the largest funder of global health and family planning programs worldwide. Democratic contender Joe Biden is at complete odds with President Donald Trump on this and other policies, and so the outcome of the upcoming election could carry...

Vietnamese Americans traditionally vote Republican. They also tend to be anti-Communist and deeply suspicious of China. Many are part of the first generation that arrived in the US after the trauma of losing their homeland, South Vietnam, to the...

As herd immunity gains new ground as a possible public health strategy, a growing chorus of public health experts is speaking out against it as an extremely dangerous idea.

The UK government announced today that it is funding the first stage of a human challenge trial for a coronavirus vaccine. And, an international mystery that seems to be ripped from a Cold War spy novel: US diplomats coming down with mysterious...

The government cites conservative values as the reason for policing music and dancing clips on the trendy video-sharing platform.

Health authorities in Europe and around the world are bracing for new surges of the coronavirus. As fall temperatures drop and more of us stay inside longer, where do we stand on testing, diagnostics and a vaccine amid a growing sense of pandemic...

The world reacted in horror when the Taliban blew up a UNESCO Heritage Site, the historic Buddha statues of Afghanistan. Thanks to 3-D light projections, the Buddhas are once again looking out over the Bamiyan Valley.

Many health officials around the world are working to contain second waves of the coronavirus. As part of our regular series on the pandemic with Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, join us as we examine what's driving the latest wave of...

The scene of an infected President Donald Trump unmasking for the camera after his release from Walter Reed hospital raises big concerns about the role of leadership, and its impact on how people themselves behave. As the pandemic has turned more...

Hugo Award-winning author N.K. Jemisin shares her thoughts on writing, politics and her new book “How Long 'til Black Future Month?”

Many who specialize in infectious disease control say the White House is setting a bad example for the rest of the globe. The World spoke to Dr. Tom Frieden, a former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Some people believe technology will render Braille obsolete and that blind people will choose talking apps and audiobooks over embossed dots. But Braille has been written off many times before and each time, it has come back stronger.

Turkey is one of the few majority Muslim countries where abortion is legal, but access to abortion is becoming limited under the conservative government. Many public hospitals have stopped providing them, and police have busted back-alley clinics....

Germany's Madagascar Plan is one of the lesser-known ‘what ifs’ of World War II history.

Over 7 million acres of the Pantanal has gone up in smoke — roughly 50% more than all of the land that has burned so far along the entire US West Coast.