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Health

Why Americans are getting squeezed by surging drug costs

Yolaida Martinez, a 29-year-old mother living with her two children in a Boston shelter, volunteers as the administrator of her church every Sunday. (Photo by Kelly Kasulis/GroundTruth)
Health

For Boston’s working homeless, a job is not enough

  Yolaida Martinez counted on her hands as she sat at the kitchen table, each swollen finger representing...

Nov 11, 2016
The "smart bra" will help monitor women's heart beat and other biometrics.
Health

New ‘smart bra’ will monitor women’s heart health

A startup out of MIT is creating a wearable specifically aimed at better monitoring and understanding women’s cardiovascular...

Nov 01, 2016
Stuart Soboleski poses in his workshop in Albany, Vermont. (Photo by Ben Brody/GroundTruth)
Health

Struggling in Rural New England

Struggling in Rural New England: 'Undercurrent of anxiety' Emilie Poulin, a 32-year-old mother living in Marlboro, Vermont, says...

Nov 01, 2016
Rights

Unemployment Map

Unemployment Map: Visualizing the millions of young people looking for work By Kelly Kasulis|Sept. 6, 2016 The International...

Sep 07, 2016
A few days after her sterilization operation, Sonia Devi, 35, recuperates at home with her newborn daughter, Lovely, her fourth child, in the Begusarai District in Bihar. After she gave birth, Sonia says an asha, an accredited social health activist, told her about the option of using sterilization to limit her family size. Sonia didn't appear to be aware of other methods of birth control. (Photo by Sarah Weiser/GroundTruth)
Health

In India, sterilization is sometimes the only birth control available

Concerns about the world’s rapidly growing population led to far-reaching calls for control measures in the 1960s. In...

Jul 13, 2016
Porcupine is a sought-after delicacy in Vietnam, not readily available in the cities but a treat when you can get it. (Photo by Joanne Silberner/GroundTruth)
Health

Food and hospitality in Vietnam, with a side of porcupine

By Joanne Silberner In a small no-frills eatery in Hanoi, Vietnam, this week, President Obama made international headlines when...

May 27, 2016
Environment

Returning to Fukushima, five years after nuclear disaster

FUKUSHIMA — I arrive here to the smiling face of Hidekatsu Ouichi, the main character of our film...

Apr 20, 2016
Health

To Jordan’s Bedouins, MERS is ‘only a story’

On the first day of a three-day summer reporting trip in Jordan’s southern Wadi Rum desert, Bedouin herder...

Jan 13, 2016
Water gushes from a fire hydrant along Harrison Street as part of a system maintenance program with the Flint Water Department thought to clear out potential contaminants from the water mains on Tuesday, May 12, 2015. (Brittany Greeson/GroundTruth)
Health

We Fear the Water: Residents struggle to cope with Flint water crisis

It was April 2014 when, at the push of a button, the Flint River — which hadn’t been...

Dec 23, 2015
Farmers sell their ducks and chickens at the Ha Vy market outside Hanoi.
Health

How Vietnam Mastered Infectious Disease Control

By Joanne Silberner It’s the winter of 2003, and Long Thanh Ngo, head of a government biological testing lab...

Nov 05, 2015
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