This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. World Mosquito Day today marks the 1897 discovery by Sir Ronald Ross that female Anopheles mosquitoes spread malaria. Since that breakthrough, the world has fought this deadly disease through scientific research and new technology. While astounding progress…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Dimakatso, 23, lives in Soshanguve, South Africa. Her father passed away a little over a year ago, forcing her mother to relocate to a neighboring town for work, and leaving…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For some reason, nobody wants to say HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Instead, we refer to Zet 3, to amagama amathathu (meaning “the three letters”); we call it “the three ships”,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For-profit corporations invest large amounts of money in global health R&D to develop novel treatments, drugs, and vaccines for neglected diseases. However, of the $157 billion spent on global health…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The good news? Enrollment in new cancer therapy clinical trials has returned to normal, at least within one large trial network, a year after the pandemic began. The bad news?…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mandatory teacher vaccinations against COVID-19 became the hot topic in education circles again last week, with Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, making the media rounds on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With more than half of the US population having received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, the shape of our vaccine rollout is changing. And while the unvaccinated people…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Misinformation about the coronavirus vaccines is present on nearly every type of media, but a pair of new studies highlight the link between social-media consumption and resistance or hesitancy to get…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With the delta variant making up over 93% of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. at the end of July 2021, questions arise about how to stay protected against evolving forms…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea A new technique my colleagues and I developed that can kill deadly, multidrug-resistant bacteria in real…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its guidance to recommend everyone, regardless of vaccination status, wear masks in Covid-19 hot spots. A study of an outbreak in Provincetown, Massachusetts, found around three-quarters…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Less than halfway through the 2020 wildfire season, fires are burning large swaths of the western U.S. As in previous years, these disasters have entered populated areas, damaging drinking water…