Some believe the business of surrogacy commodifies women. Does everyone have the right to a biological baby or does surrogacy violate the rights of the child? 3D image of a human fetus inside a womb. (Credit: digitalgenetics/Getty images) This article was produced...
Almost 60,000 die from snakebite each year in India, but only one facility is producing the venom needed to make the antivenom. A herpetologist milks the venom out of a snake at Kenya Snakebite Research and Intervention Centre (KSRIC) in Nairobi, Kenya, 5 April 2024....
Online sales of pesticides helps farmers in places far from suppliers. Can we keep them out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them? A person pulls up an online site for buying pesticides. (Illustration by News Decoder) Warning: This article contains...
Millions of girls around the world undergo a brutal and unnecessary surgery. Gambia, which banned the practice, is set to reverse course. Doctors in Somalia perform a repair surgery on a patient who had previously undergone female genital mutilation, 8 February 2022....
A million child deaths around the world can be prevented. It would take a big mobilization of health care workers and small packets of nutritional food. A doctor examines a child for malnutrition by measuring the mid-upper-arm-circumference. Credit: Mohammad Bash...