This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Designer therapies are treatments tailored to a specific disease, and nowhere is the need greater for new therapies than in a group of nervous system disorders, known as “neurodegenerative diseases.”…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Buoyed by a massive influx of federal education funding, schools and districts are rolling out a greater number of programs and initiatives to drive learning recovery for students than at…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Around the world, people are experiencing an unprecedented triple threat. The compounding impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and conflict have exacerbated underlying inequities, driving vulnerable communities further into…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Hollis Irvin learned to read last year. She’s a good reader, her mother, Tiffany Burks, says. Last year, when the pandemic forced schools to close temporarily and during the early…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the COVID-19 vaccination rate slows down in the U.S. — according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only about 54 percent of the eligible population was fully vaccinated as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Fifteen years ago, I heard the words no one wants to hear—I had breast cancer. Even so, I was lucky in that I had comprehensive health insurance, access to some…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than 153 million people in the United States are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. While this is laudable progress, much work remains to be done to ensure every American gets equitable access to this…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic underscores more than any time in recent history how important it is to protect public health. Yet, as countries race to develop a coronavirus vaccine, another everyday…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Only 1 in 10 older adults in a large national survey who were found to have cognitive impairment consistent with dementia reported a formal medical diagnosis of the condition. Using…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the race between infection and injection, injection has lost. Public health experts estimate that approximately 70% of the world’s 7.9 billion people must be fully vaccinated to end the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The big idea Our bodies contain a special protein tag that plays a role in how cells recover from specific threats to their survival, according to new research I co-authored.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The 32nd edition of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT® Data Book describes how children across the United States were faring before — and during — the coronavirus pandemic. This year’s publication…