Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
Tag: Health
05/23/2024
![A health care worker wearing virus protective gear before entering a high risk zone at an Ebola virus clinic](https://theprogressnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-ebola-case-numbers-decline-1200x941-1.jpg)
What Could Go Right? What Happened to Ebola?
There’s a reason why you haven’t heard about it in years.
04/18/2024
![Photo of a healthy newborn baby wrapped in a blanket in a hospital](https://theprogressnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image-global-child-mortality-declines-1200x799-1.jpg)
What Could Go Right? One Uninterrupted Decline
The pandemic spared even the most vulnerable of the world’s young children.
04/04/2024
![Abortion rights advocates hold a sign reading 'Protect Abortion Access' in front of the US Supreme Court Building](https://theprogressnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image-abortion-access-united-states-2024-1200x800-1.jpg)
What Could Go Right? Two Years Post-Roe
Abortion access is patchwork but has also held up better than expected.
03/21/2024
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What Could Go Right? Two Things That Are Better than They Seem
If you were only going off of headlines
03/07/2024
![In 1959 it was estimated that nearly 400 million people suffered from trachoma. Though this eye infection does not kill, it can last a lifetime if untreated. Its victims often become blind. In India, trachoma was the largest single cause of preventable blindness. In some rural areas of Northern India the infection rate was as high as 80-90 per cent of the total population. A WHO-assisted pilot project trachoma team based at the Gandhi Eye Hospital in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, visited the region village by village, examining patients and organizing antibiotic treatment, and carrying out research to determinate the ways in which infection spread. The methods of attack proved effective in preventing blindness but complete control of trachoma and associated bacterial conjunctivitis requires the support of long-term health education and environmental sanitation programmes. The manner of applying eye cosmetics ("kohl") widely in Eastern countries for both woman and children, is suspected to play an important part in spreading eye infections. A mother with infected eyes can easily pass on the infection to her children, or from one infected child to another, while applying cosmetics to her eyes or those of her children with the same finger or "pencil". Image: WHO / Homer Page](https://theprogressnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-india-trachoma-1959-1200x853-1.jpg)
What Could Go Right? The Platinum Decade
Southeast Asia celebrates several public health accomplishments.
02/29/2024
![The genome in three dimensions folds up, forming loops and other shapes, to fit inside the nucleus. Credit: Darryl Leja and Ernesto Del Aguila III, NHGRI](https://theprogressnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image-genome-in-3d-1200x800-1.jpg)
What Could Go Right? 275M Previously Undiscovered DNA Variants
A federal health project is adding to our trove of knowledge on the human genome.
01/25/2024
![Photo of an elderly person drinking coffee](https://theprogressnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image-longer-lifespans-more-centenarians-1200x800-1.jpg)
What Could Go Right? The centenarian century
We’re all living longer. So long that the number of the world’s oldest people will quadruple in the next few decades.
01/18/2024
![Photo of a smiling mother and her newborn baby](https://theprogressnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/image-maternal-mortality-rates-united-states-1200x799-1.jpg)
What Could Go Right? When the culprit is data
Is the alarm over maternal mortality rates in the US warranted?
12/21/2023
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What Could Go Right? Hopescrolling 2023
Something good happened every week of this year.
12/14/2023
![Photo of a scientist working in a lab | Credit: Vertex Pharmaceuticals](https://theprogressnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-sickle-cell-treatment-approved-1200x800-1.jpg)
What Could Go Right? A new sickle cell treatment
May last a lifetime. It’s also the world’s first gene therapy for the disease.
12/07/2023
![Photo of a homeless person on a street corner](https://theprogressnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-homelessness-2023-1200x789-1.jpg)
What Could Go Right? Homelessness has not spiked
A dive into the numbers
11/27/2023
![Psilocybin mushrooms growing in a forest](https://theprogressnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/psychedelic-research-therapy-legalization-1200x800-1.jpg)