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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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By Sandee LaMotte, CNNIf you could wish for just one thing, would it be happiness or a long life? Given what researchers tell us, one is likely to produce the other.
Owning a dog tied to lowering your risk of dying early by 24%, says science
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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.
Middle East Obesity
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.
Living Longer
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.
Space Health
Search for next-generation antibiotics
Scientists are racing against time to combat antibiotic resistance -- one of the biggest threats to global health today.
Antibiotic Resistance
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.
'Childhood Alzheimer's'
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Are we ready for the next global epidemic?
Experts say it's not a question of if, but when, the next global epidemic will happen. But scientists are working to stop the next outbreak in its tracks.
The contact lens with a built-in telescope
Smart contact lenses with embedded mirrors could give telescopic vision, helping to restore sight in people with macular degeneration.
The battle to eliminate elephantiasis
1.4 billion people globally are at risk of elephantiasis -- and 500 million are in India. But a new campaign is intent on eliminating it.
The worms that invade your brain
Scientists are uncovering the secrets of tapeworms that can live in the human brain.
The air pollution that's choking Asia
A haze has periodically wafted over southeast Asia for 20 years. But despite public health fears, the problem remains as opaque as the smoke itself.
Hunting the 'fiery serpent'
Meera Senthilingam, for CNN
"It's such a loser of a disease that some countries eradicated it without even knowing they'd had it. It can naturally disappear."
On the road to an HIV vaccine?
There were 2.1 million new HIV infections in 2013. Will we ever have an effective vaccine?
These 8 whiz kids are the future of medicine
While their peers were playing video games or panicking about the prom, a group of young whiz kids has been prioritizing medical innovation.
