This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Seattle Children’s shares 17-year-old Ruth Garcia’s story about being diagnosed with melanoma, her surgery — and now getting back to doing what she loves: photography. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass Take: · According to Futurity, researchers at the National University of Singapore have discovered that a certain protein can lead to inflammation that promotes the growth of tumors. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · New research from the New England Journal of Medicine may provide an explanation for why patients with acute myeloid leukemia often have a relapse after their stem cell…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Futurity reports on an alarming statistic that shows the number of people with dementia more than doubled between 1990 and 2016. By 2050, the number of people…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The World Health Organization breaks down the leading causes of death of children around the world. • How can funders use this information to direct health…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Wellcome shares their philanthropic strategy for addressing the ongoing Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. • How can other organizations work to bolster these efforts…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Joel Michael Reynolds, writing for The Conversation, lists three reasons based on ethical grounds of why vaccinations are necessary for the public. • How can health funders help…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • FiveThirtyEight reports on a recent analysis from epidemiologists that took what we know about chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in NFL players who died and attempted to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Neeraja Bhavaraju explains how innovations put HIV protection in the hands of women in male-dominated cultures, preventing the spread of the infection. • How can philanthropy support these…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass Take: • According to Futurity, researchers have found a way to use light and sound imaging to help in ovarian cancer diagnosis, a notoriously difficult cancer to detect early.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • TIME magazine reports on a fertility treatment called mitochondrial replacement therapy that may help eliminate a rare, deadly disease in infants — but the procedure comes…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Linda Carroll reports that college students are far more likely to develop an infection from meningococcus B, which can become deadly. The vaccine, though available, is not in…