Grading The World's Textbooks: Making Progress But Needs Improvement
A UNESCO survey shows that school books often minimize, brush aside or misrepresent important issues, from gender equality to environmental protection.
Health & Safety
A Rare Bird Flu Infects Cats In New York City Shelter
Health officials are tracking people who interacted with the sick cats, since flu viruses can jump from animals to people. In this case they think there's probably little risk to humans.
Pentagon Shelves Blast Gauges Meant To Detect Battlefield Brain Injuries
The military hoped the body-worn sensors would identify troops with brain injuries from a bomb blast. Instead, the sensors showed service members may be at risk from firing their own weapons.
How Much Is Too Much? New Study Casts Doubts On Sugar Guidelines
An industry-funded study questions the evidence behind guidelines on daily sugar intake. Public health experts call the controversial findings an industry attempt to undermine scientific consensus.
Patients Cared For By Female Doctors Fare Better Than Those Treated By Men
If male doctors were as good as their female counterparts at caring for older people in the hospital, about 32,000 fewer patients a year would die. What do female doctors do better than men?
Black Goat Is Sacrificed On Tarmac Of Pakistani Airport
Employees of Pakistan International Airlines sacrificed the animal to mark the first flight of an ATR turboprop plane since the fleet was grounded following a Dec. 7 crash.
Doctors Say Parenting And Pot Smoking Don't Mix
Babies exposed to marijuana smoke have metabolites of the drug in their urine, researchers say. They think that secondhand marijuana smoke will prove to be as dangerous as secondhand tobacco smoke.
Please, Baby, Please: Some Couples Turn To Crowdfunding For IVF
Infertility is often a private struggle. But some couples are going public — via crowdfunding sites — to help subsidize in vitro fertilization treatments that can cost as much as $20,000 each time.
How Is The World Treating People With Disabilities?
A new report from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health looks at how far countries have come — and have far they still have to go.
Dolls With Disabilities Escape The Toy Hospital, Go Mainstream
Longtime toymakers are broadening their horizons — offering dolls and other figures with hearing aids, wheelchairs and insulin pumps in city scenes, not just hospitals. That's a start, activists say.