Health
Articles about Health, ordered by date. 
'These are the boys who fought Ebola!'
Gangsters turned mobilizers, the Tripoli Boys kicked Ebola out of their neighbourhood. Amjata Bayoh and Mohamed S Camara find out what happened next.
Love without touch
Bankolay Turay’s story of student romance on ice.
For better or worse
Mamie Lebbi, the first woman to test positive for Ebola, describes how she survived in the bush with her husband’s help.
Where my father lies
Mariama B Jalloh’s quest to find her father’s grave.
Ebola - the facts
Statistics and more on the spread of the virus through West Africa.
Did we learn the right lessons from Ebola?
And will Sierra Leone be ready, should the virus return? Hazel Healy travelled there to find out.
Male baldness v malaria?
Simon Trace on the skewed priorities of medical research.
Forest bathing
Escaping the pressures of modern life in Japan. By Tina Burrett and Christopher Simons.
Letter from Bangui: The guardian
A sudden change in an employee's health reveals hidden hardship to Ruby Diamonde.
Granny training in Lesotho
Rebecca Cooke explains how grandmothers are stepping up.
What is killing sugarcane cutters?
Workers in in Central America face an epidemic of a chronic kidney disease, new research reveals.
Lay off the pills
Emma Rose explains why animals should not be given so many antibiotics.
20 years ago in New Internationalist
Chris Brazier takes a look back at what we were writing about 20 years ago.
Secret Agent Orange
Katie McQue on Agent Orange's toxic legacy.
Life after rape in DRC
Fergus Simpson visits a hospital helping Congolese women and children recover from conflict-related trauma and violence.
Toxic lobby
The corporate lobby may be working to protect harmful chemicals rather than our health, writes Hazel Healy.
Life goes on with leprosy
Photographer Tom Bradley has been documenting the lives of those living with leprosy.
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