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A laughter therapy session for elderly in California

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People with heart problems speak after a cardiovascular therapy training session at Sabana Park in ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography: Interview How to tackle chronic disease The alarming spread of chronic disease demands that we move patients from ... more

New York City advertisement to fight obesity

Costa Rican heart condition therapy session

peruvian seniors dancing

Children drinking Big Gulp sugary sodas

Workout in San Jose

A lit cigarette

An elderly Spanish lady drinks a beer

A breast cancer patient at a treatment center in Lima

Visitors at an Angry Birds theme park in China

Dog walkers in New York City

A young man covers his mouth while crossing a road

A Palestinian man has an eye check up

London street party

Demography Preventing chronic diseases These are the findings of the Economist Intelligence Unit's report into tackling chronic ... more

A microscope image of neural stem cells (in green) made by Dr. Tilo Kunath from human embryonic ... / Credits: Tilo Kunath

Demography: Interview How stem cells can extend healthy old age New therapies could regenerate old cells and transform the lives of the ... more

Max Little, MIT and TED Fellow, explains how analyzing speech patterns can help diagnose ... / Credits: TED Conferences LLC Ryan Lash

Demography TEDGlobal 2012: Parkinson’s diagnosis just a phone call away Help build a system to detect and monitor Parkinson’s disease, urges TED fellow ... more

Peruvian Ety Napadenschi, who is eight months pregnant, is touched by a dolphin during therapy sessions in Lima

Newborn Baby is baptized

Babys in Tummy Tubs after a massage session

Dozens of Argentine nursery school children hand over toy guns in exchange for school supplies

A girl goes through physical conditioning during a ballet training session

Students during a yoga class

Former South African President and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela is surrounded by his grandchildren at his house

French kids playing rugby

As part of a sex education program conducted by Sri Lanka‘s Family planning centre, school children learn more about their sexuality

Dressed in punk fashions these young revellers celebrate a festival in Myanmar

Demography Healthy development from pregnancy to adolescence Becoming a parent confronts mothers and fathers with unimagined challenges. Here are some ... more

Susan Solomon, founder of the New York Stem Cell Foundation, delivers her talk at TEDGlobal 2012 in ... / Credits: James Tulloch

Demography TEDGlobal 2012: Stem cells the black boxes for diseases Stem cells can make today’s incurable diseases tomorrow’s preventable ... more

A HIV positive man protests outside Mexico's Health Ministry building against the high cost of HIV ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography HIV/AIDS: An epidemic contained HIV/AIDS is the biggest infectious disease threat facing the world. But ... more

About two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese, putting them at an increased risk for ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography Diabetes: Putting on weight Diabetes is a rapidly spreading global epidemic that feeds on the increasing ... more

A child is given an injection as part of a malaria vaccine trial at a clinic in Kenya. Malaria ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography Malaria: Child killer Malaria is one of the deadliest infectious diseases. But lately a malaria ... more

People with heart problems exercise in San Jose, Costa Rica. More than 60 percent of the population ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography Cardiovascular: Heart of the matter Cardiovascular diseases of the heart and blood vessels are the number one cause ... more

Cancer patients in the Indian city of Kolkata on World Cancer Day February 4, 2009. The global ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography Cancer: Lifestyles threaten lives Cancer overtook heart disease as the world's number one killer in 2010, ... more

Demography: Interview Winning the war against cancer Prevention is the best cure for cancer, says Isabel Mortara, Executive Director ... more

A woman in a wheelchair and her son are just a few of thousands of protestors remain late in the ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography A short history of Obamacare On the issue of U.S. healthcare, it can be difficult to see through the ... more

An x-ray of a gunshot victim.

Penicillin fungi growing on a bunch of moldy red grapes.

A view of a Bayer AG building covered to look like an aspirin box.

Type 1 diabetic Tamara Khachatoorian holds her bottles of insulin.

Justin Noynay has his upper lips covered with a plaster after surgery .

Workers arrange Hepatitis-A vaccines for packing at a pharmaceutical company in Beijing.

Gynecologist Arquimedes Hernandez performs an ultrasound scan .

Computed tomography (CT) is a very advanced way of using x-rays.

Dr Ian Wilmut faces Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal.

The AbioCor implantable replacement heart, the world's first self-contained mechanical heart.

Demography Medical breakthroughs Ten of the biggest medical breakthroughs that have helped make the world healthier. more

300 Word Video on medical milestones. / Credits: Project M

Demography: Video What was the major medical breakthrough in modern history? Antibiotics? Medical imaging? Ultrasound? Heart transplants or life-saving ... more

A side of beef being butchered.

A bowl of raw fish in Japan.

A cooler full of milk.

A woman sorts rice grains.

A baker makes bread.

A shopper searches for cooking oil.

Chocolates ready for packing.

Pistachio nuts.

A man drinks orange juice.

A cup of coffee.

Silhouette of a wine drinker.

Demography Healthy eating: Food benefits and risks Weigh up the health benefits and the risks of common foods and drinks. more

Andrea Gahler, nutritionist, at a food workshop for kids: "Many children use food to comfort ... / Credits: Andrea Gahler

Demography: Interview Teaching children how to eat well Children in industrialized countries are increasingly obese. Nutrionist Andrea ... more

Pregnant women with their bellies painted take part in "Healthy Maternity Week" in Lima, Peru. The ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography Mothers at risk: Protecting life-givers Worldwide, women of childbearing age are more likely to die from sex- or ... more

In 2008, six years after it first promised to do so, McDonald's said it would switch to cooking ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography The growing health backlash against trans-fats Trans-fats are a public health horror story. A global outcry has forced the ... more

Although a carnivore by genetic make-up, the Great Panda subsists on a diet of bamboo only / Credits: Reuters

Demography How healthy is vegetarianism? What do Einstein, Gandhi, Paul McCartney and your mother have in common? They ... more

Doctors and medical staff work during knee prosthesis surgery in an operation room at a Swiss hospital.

Sony's lithium-ion battery for its Vaio laptops is seen during a photo opportunity at its showroom in Tokyo.

Clothes are hung out to dry on a street in Venice, June 2012.

The take-off ramp is reflected in the ski goggles of Kasai Noriaki of Japan during a practice jump for the men's HS 134 ski jumping competition at the Nordic World Championships in Liberec, February 2009.

Visitors use keyboard computers as they play video games during a visit at the Paris Games Week show in Paris, October 2011.

Canon cameras with lenses are pictured at the stand of Japanese camera maker Canon on the press day of the world's largest fair for imaging in Cologne September 17, 2012.

Boston Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka sprays sunscreen on his face between innings during their spring training MLB baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Vero Beach, Florida.

A man walks past Beko, Arcelik and Samsung refrigerators on sale at a store in Istanbul.

Demography Nanotechnology everywhere in daily life Nanotechnology is appearing in all sorts of places you might not expect. Here are some of ... more

Patient receives vaccination.

Picture of a rat flea.

Dengue fever is transmitted by infected Aedes mosquitoes, shown in the picture.

Child drinking water from a cup.

Girl at a doctor's.

Picture of an ebola virus causing occasional epidemics in African countries.

People spreading a large HIV/AIDS-ribbon.

People with protective gear examining infected poultry when human cases of H5N1 had been reported in 2006.

In November 2002, the first cases of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) emerged in the Guangdong Province in China.

Little boy with protective mask.

Demography Deadly pandemics Major outbreaks have cost billions of lives throughout history. See which diseases still ... more

Demography: Interview How safe are our medicines? The late 1990s and early 2000s saw a wave of drugs go wrong. Johannes Klose of ... more

A father, whose younger son died of SARS in 2003, demonstrates with his elder son against Hong Kong ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography: Interview Globalization and the pandemic threat Gunnar Millar of the Allianz Global Investors company RCM, explains how ... more

A menu of a fast food restaurant in New York. Are rapidly rising obesity rates a sign that humans ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography Obesity epidemic: Beyond the saturation point Obesity has now reached epidemic proportions worldwide. When does your ... more

A microscopic view shows smooth muscle cells derived from human embryonic stem cells. / Credits: Reuters

Demography: Interview Stem cells: The keys to life Stem cells could revolutionize medicine and drug testing, explains Roger ... more

Thilo Bode, head of the Foodwatch consumer group, holds a sample of colour-coded 'traffic light' ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography: Interview "Traffic light" food labeling and public health Color coding food products according to fat, salt, and sugar levels helps ... more