This eight-week summer program is designed to provide training in tropical medicine and related public health issues through a multidisciplinary approach. It is also designed to prepare participants for working with current and emerging health problems in developing countries and health problems of travelers.

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Women who stop smoking can enjoy major health benefits within five years, but it can take decades to correct respiratory damage and lower their risk of lung cancer, researchers reported on Tuesday.
Those who kicked the habit had a 13 per cent reduction in the risk of death from all causes including heart and vascular problems [...]

From starting tree nurseries to properly disposing of solid waste, a new guide offers simple solutions to help communities around the planet improve their quality of life.
The Hesperian Foundation, a non-profit publisher based in Berkeley, California, has just produced A Community Guide to Environmental Health. The book focuses on grassroots solutions for poor communities dealing [...]

Food prices were up 9 per cent in the year to February. Bread prices are soaring, dairy commodity prices have doubled.
Two factors copping most of the blame %26ndash; the burgeoning wealth of developing countries and the biofuels industry %26ndash; are unlikely to disappear soon.
China, India, and other emerging economies are driving up demand for meat [...]

Children who are five to six months old are growing rapidly and need sufficient iron to fuel their development. However, this is also the time when an infant’s first iron reserves start becoming depleted.
Physiologist Raymond Glahn at the ARS Plant, Soil and Nutrition [...]