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Vital Signs explores health stories from around the world, giving a global perspective on how health issues are detected, treated and handled socially.
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Two people just got the plague in China — yes, the Black Death plague
By Jessie Yeung, CNN
Two people in China are being treated for plague, authorities said Tuesday. It's the second time the disease, the same one that caused the Black Death, one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, has been detected in the region -- in May, a Mongolian couple died from bubonic plague after eating the raw kidney of a marmot, a local folk health remedy.
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How France is persuading its citizens to get vaccinated
Malaria-fighting soup? On a lark, a school experiment leads to findings about homemade cures
The man whose duvet nearly killed him: How this medical mystery was solved
Only children are more likely to be obese, study says
China approves seaweed-based Alzheimer's drug. It's the first new one in 17 years
Meet Belfast's 'dementia-friendly barber'
Why Thailand is putting its Buddhist monks on a diet
Read: You can train yourself to be happy
Meet the smoking-free, carbon-negative country that passes no law unless it improves citizens' well-being
The wearable cyborgs that use brain waves to power up your muscles
Read: Do you eat too much meat?
Could fake meat burgers make cows obsolete?
Dr. Sanjay Gupta: The epidemic of gun violence is treatable
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Women with paying jobs see slower memory loss later in life
Scientists have found that anorexia is linked to metabolism
Your health before age 40 is tied to heart risks later in life

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Middle East Obesity

How a luxury lifestyle can lead to obestiy issues
As obesity and diabetes continue to rise, Vital Signs focuses in on the part of the world where it has reached epidemic levels - the Middle East.
Kuwait's healthy food awareness
Kuwait joins the crossfit craze
Middle East obesity epidemic

Living Longer

The art of aging
Vital Signs explores the secrets of the "Blue Zones" -- parts of the world where people remain healthy and active into old age.
The secrets of centenarians
The principles of living longer
Does this place hold the secret to long life?
Five ways to eat yourself healthier

Space Health

A laboratory that is out of this world
Vital Signs sees how medical research in space is benefiting life for all of us here on Earth.
Robot surgeon inspired by space tech
Diet and exercise in space
The NASA diet: It's food, but not as we know it

Antibiotic Resistance

Search for next-generation antibiotics
Scientists are racing against time to combat antibiotic resistance -- one of the biggest threats to global health today.
How does antibiotic resistance work?
Icy waters could hold key to global crisis
Arctic waters could hold secret to creating life-saving drugs

'Childhood Alzheimer's'

Living with 'Childhood Alzheimer's'
Addison and Cassidy Hempel were three years old when their parents realized they were slipping away. Dr Sanjay Gupta reports.
Parents fight to cure rare disease
Family's crusade reaches milestone
A treatment for deadly Niemann-Pick disease?

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