This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Bill Gates announced this week that he’s ploughing $100m (£76m) into research to find a breakthrough for Alzheimer’s disease. The initial $50m will be invested in a venture capital fund called…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In late August, a man traveling on a small, packed bus headed for the Malagasy capital, Antananarivo, passed away suddenly of respiratory failure. His body was taken to the nearest…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The major global health crises of recent decades have, at times, felt insurmountable. The onset of the HIV epidemic in the late 1970s and the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every once in a while something special comes along that has the power to stop us in our tracks. The “Person-Centered Matters” video about people living with dementia and those…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) hails today’s U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of a new, personalized cell therapy that supercharges the patient’s immune system to find and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite recent mobilization of funding and targeted interventions by donors, nongovernmental organisations, and the private and public sectors between 2005 and 2015, much more needs to be done to end preventable child deaths by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Dr. Ruth Etzioni, a biostatistician in Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s Public Health Sciences Division, has received a five-year National Institutes of Health grant to advance the science of cancer…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Six years ago, Todd Hirai learned why all the physical therapy he’d received for his baseball injury hadn’t eased his back pain. He hadn’t wrenched his back in the batting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A prognostic test for ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) could help improve and accelerate clinical trials and speed the development of life-saving drugs to people with ALS. Reports suggest approximately 30,000…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of a new, personalized cell therapy that supercharges the patient’s immune system to find and kill cancer cells. The therapy, axicabtagene ciloleucel (Yescarta…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The fight against tuberculosis is the latest effort to investigate innovative financing instruments for vital funding. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the International Union against Tuberculosis…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There are 126 drugs in clinical development for Alzheimer’s disease and “every single one represents hope,” according to Closing in on a Cure: 2017 Alzheimer’s Clinical Trials Report. The report, released…