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File Photo: Former South African President Nelson Mandela waves during The Mandela Rhodes Foundation  90th birthday celebration for the former president at one of his residence in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. (Photo by Schalk van Zuydam/AP Photo)

Mood shifts as Nelson Mandela remains in South Africa hospital

Officials described the 94-year-old's condition as "serious, but stable" when he was brought to hospital on Saturday. That marked the first time the term "serious" had been used despite Mandela's numerous health scares. Read More

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File Photo: Former South African President Nelson Mandela has tea with his wife Graça Machel, left, as he celebrates his birthday with family in Qunu, South Africa, Wednesday, July 18, 2012.  (Photo by Schalk van Zuydam/AP Photo, File)

Mandela returns to hospital in ‘serious condition’

In the early hours of Saturday morning, former South African President Nelson Mandela suffered a recurrence of a lung infection and was rushed to the hospital in Pretoria where officials say the 94-year-old's condition is "serious, but stable." Read More

More Than Me Foundation founder Katie Meyler with students in Liberia.

Foot Soldier Katie Meyler to open academy for Liberian girls

Before former "Foot Soldier" Katie Meyler joined "MHP" for an update on her educational activism, she gave an extended interview to MHPshow.com. Read More

Victor Hugo Mata, lawyer of a 22-year-old Salvadoran woman identified as "Beatriz" (not in picture) who is seeking an abortion, speaks during a news conference in San Salvador May 30, 2013. (Photo by Ulises Rodriguez/Reuters)

Pregnant El Salvador woman denied abortion but allowed early C-section

El Salvador's Health Minister approved a C-section for the 22-year-old woman suffering from kidney failure and lupus. This comes a day after the Supreme Court ruled she could not have an abortion despite her lawyers' appeal that the pregnancy was life-threatening. Read More

Pediatrician Dr. Larry Cohan sees patient Isaac Brown, right, at his office in Boston, Mass. on Tuesday, March 27, 2012. Cohan uses a computer and screen to interact with his patient, showing them such things as a growth chart. (Photo by Yoon S. Byun/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Athenahealth CEO: Online health records could provide ‘enormous’ savings

If doctors used online records instead of old software to log patients' information, there would be huge economic savings, the CEO of Athenahealth said on Wednesday. Read More

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Athenahealth CEO: Online health records could provide ‘enormous’ savings

If doctors used online records instead of old software to log patients' information, there would be huge economic savings, the CEO of Athenahealth said. Read More

This digital composite shows (L-R, clockwise) U.S. first lady Michelle Obama. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Former U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. (Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) Queen Elizabeth II. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth - WPA Pool/Getty Images) Singer Beyonce. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) Author J.K. Rowling. (Photo by Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images) German Chancellor Angela Merkel. (Photo by Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images)

Michelle Obama, Angela Merkel among world’s most powerful women

Designer Tory Burch, singer Beyonce Knowles, and comedian Ellen DeGeneres also made the Forbes list, which is comprised of 100 women from around the world. Read More

"Top Chef" host Padma Lakshmi speaks at the
Endometriosis Foundation of America's Annual Blossom Ball in March, 2012.

Attention to women’s diseases should reach beyond Angelina Jolie

"MHP" guest Valarie Kaur and a health professional argue that the spotlight on Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy should open up our scope to other women's illnesses deserving attention. Read More

A man looks at a boulder that hit a car after a tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, May 20, 2013. A 2-mile-wide (3-km-wide) tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing at least 51 people while destroying entire tracts of homes, piling cars atop one another, and trapping two dozen school children beneath rubble. REUTERS/Gene Blevins

How to help: Oklahoma tornado victims

Contributions will assist with buying supplies, materials, diesel for emergency vehicles, and food for responders helping victims of the tornado that razed Moore, Okla., Monday. Read More

Actress and activist Angelina Jolie made big news with her recent announcement that she underwent a double mastectomy to lessen her risk of breast cancer.

The Syllabus: What you need to know for the May 19 ‘MHP’

The class of 2013 gets recognized in #nerdland, as do fast food strikers -- and Angelina Jolie's big decision highlights a discussion about the politics of breast cancer on Sunday's "MHP." Read More

Actress Angelina Jolie disclosed that she underwent a preventative double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery after discovering that she was at risk for cancer. (Photo by:  Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Angelina Jolie discloses her double mastectomy procedure

The 37-year-old actress revealed on Tuesday in a New York Times op-ed that she went through a double mastectomy to lower her chances of breast and ovarian cancer. Read More

A mother and child, dressed in traditional clothing, sit on the ground amid rubble and brunt trees, Hiroshima, Japan, December 1945. On August 6, some four months previously, the United States had dropped an atomic bomb on the city--three days later a second one was dropped on Nagasaki. (Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

What happens if Iran and Israel go nuclear? We aren’t prepared

A new study details the likely medical consequences of an Iran-Israel nuclear exchange. Even a limited exchange would kill more people than the Holocaust in a matter of hours. And a lack of preparedness would make it worse. Read More

Dr. David Katz

Watch: Yale’s Dr. David Katz discusses the ‘F-word’

Dr. David Katz of Yale University says to stop using the “F-Word”--but it's not the word you think. Read More

Michelle Obama

Rescue of Ohio women must be ‘best Mother’s Day gift,’ says Michelle Obama

First lady Michelle Obama weighed in on the escape of three kidnapped Ohio women, calling it a "relief" and likely the best "gift these families will receive," during an interview with Today that aired Wednesday. Read More

Elissa Montanti

Watch: Nonprofit founder heals one child at a time

Elissa Montanti spoke with Morning Joe's Louis Burgdorf in a web-exclusive greenroom interview about her involvement with aiding wounded children and restoring the broken lives of the world's youth. Read More

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Could you live on $1.50 a day?

Around the world, nearly 1.5 billion people live below the poverty line. In an effort to raise awareness and funds to eradicate world hunger, Hunter and Beau Biden are taking the challenge of living on just $1.50 per day worth of food as part of the "Live Below the Line" initiative. Read More

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China leads the way in eradicating extreme world poverty

About half of the total decline in the world's extreme poverty is due in large part to efforts in China, where 680 million people moved out of poverty between 1981 and 2010. Read More

Top Chef's Tom Colicchio speaks during an interview at a night of Mexican gastronomy with the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences on Thursday, Apr. 26, 2012 in New York.

‘Top Chef’ judge Colicchio on GMOs, and his food activism

After being a guest on Sunday's "Melissa Harris-Perry," Craft Restaurants founder and "Top Chef" judge Tom Colicchio took some time to share more thoughts with MSNBC.com on genetically-modified food and what it means to be a "food activist." Read More

Elizabeth Ngugi showed the world that empowering sex workers could slow the spread of HIV in an East African slum. Photo by Geoffrey Cowley

Obama’s confusing stumble in the fight against AIDS

Research has shown that sex workers can play a vital role in HIV prevention. So why does Obama want health groups to shun them? Read More

File Photo: A man carries his guns past a voter registration booth on his way to a gun show at the Arizona state fairgrounds  February 25, 2012 in Phoenix, Arizona. The Arizona and Michigan primaries are scheduled to be held February 28, 2012. (Photo by Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images, File)

Fresh off victory, NRA looks toward 2014

In the upcoming midterm elections, pro- and anti-gun lobbyists will try to sway the vote. If history is a guide, the gun rights groups will spend more money and see more success. Read More