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For many years, Grand Island in Nebraska has hosted many immigrants passing through in search of work. But migration has come in distinctive waves: refugees from the Vietnam War in the 1970s, refugees from Eastern Europe in the 1990s, Mexican and Latino immigrants in the last couple of decades, and now a new wave of African refugees, including Somalis and Sudanese. Many of the new immigrants are...

Mental illness is experienced differently around the world. But with Americans dominating the discussion on mental health, how such diseases are classified and treated has become homogenized. This could end up causing more harm than good. Exacerbating the situation is the presence of multinational drug companies that need to sell more product. For example, in Japan, whose clinical definition of...

For the first time since animal domestication 10,000 years ago, a disease has spread from humans to animals. A new study from the University of Edinburgh shows how a version of the staph infection started in humans, spread to chickens, and then spread throughout the global poultry industry. Diseases are a major threat to the poultry industry. One of the study’s authors suggests that the global...