Bill Gates speaks at the "World Health Summit" conference in Berlin on Oct. 14, 2024. One of humanity’s most stunning achievements is something most people don’t even realize happened. In 2000, more ...

Michal Ruprecht is the Stanford Global Health Media Fellow on NPR's Science Desk, where he covers global health. He is a fourth-year medical student at Wayne State University School of Medicine and ...

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In his decades as a former president, he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, helped bring lifesaving treatments and sanitation to poor people around the world. By Stephanie Nolen Stephanie Nolen, who ...