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Melinda French Gates donates $215 million to improve women's health worldwide8:11 Melinda French Gates is expanding her efforts to improve women's health worldwide, pledging $215 million for contraceptive access and maternal care, as well as initiatives for middle-age women Doctor wanted: Small town offers big perks to attract a physician8:11 This is a MedPage Today story. HAVANA, Fla. -- For a rural community, this town of 1,750 people has been more fortunate than most. A family doctor has practiced here for the last 30 years. But that ended in December when Mark Newberry, MD, retired. To attract a new doctor, Havana leaders took out want ads in local newspapers, posted notices on social media, and sweetened the pot with a rent-free medical office equipped with an x-ray, an ultrasound machine, and a bone density scanner -- all owne… US urges Europe to step up travel measures to prevent spread of Ebola from Africa14:46 The Trump administration is telling European nations that they need to step up their travel restrictions for people from Ebola-hit countries in Africa The pressure to have baby boys can harm African mothers' health18.června In Congo and other parts of Africa, some women are having baby after baby under cultural pressure to produce a male heir, even risking their health How many Americans can afford high-quality healthcare? A new poll finds the number has fallen18.června New data from the West Health-Gallup Affordability Index shows that only about half of U.S. adults could afford their healthcare and had access to quality care last year Ancient teeth rewrite the plague's timeline, dating back to over 5,500 years ago17.června Scientists have found evidence of the oldest known plague, dating back about 5,500 years ago — some 200 years earlier than previously thought RFK Jr. overrules experts to keep hantavirus cruise ship passenger in quarantine17.června U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has refused to release a cruise ship passenger exposed to hantavirus from the Nebraska quarantine facility where she is being held The world wants more high-protein products, but there's not enough whey to go around14.června Global consumers want more protein in every bite, but the dairy industry is struggling to give it to them US pays $750K to evacuate American aboard hantavirus cruise ship from remote island11.června The Trump administration has put up $750,000 to charter a private yacht to evacuate a single American citizen from a remote South Pacific island after she had been aboard a cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak |