This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The 74 details the scene from March For Our Lives this past Saturday, with survivors from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting standing out as…
Giving Compass’ Take: • In this TED Talk, a doctor named Soka Moses details the 2014 Ebola crisis in Liberia, discussing the chaos and fear that reigned as thousands died,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • TriplePundit digs into a new study from the Journal of the American Medical Association that is eye-opening about where costs come from in our health care…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • WHO is launching a review of the findings of a study that discovered a majority of water bottles contain plastic particles inside the bottles and in the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Writing for The Hechinger Report, child psychologist Dr. Esther Calzada discusses the woeful treatment of mentally ill students by our nation’s schools, pointing out that kids with mental…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • TB is preventable and curable but it continues to kill more than a million people each year. Inequality and lack of access to medical knowledge and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Meet Garen Wintemute. ER doctor. Researcher. The NRA’s worst nightmare. The 66 year-old spent months healing victims of the deadly Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia right out of medical residency…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A drug used to treat enlarged prostate or hair loss in men has been shown to have a long-term protective effect against prostate cancer. The study, led by Fred Hutchinson…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Ever since the Oakland Unified School District launched its African-American Male Achievement office eight years ago people have been asking, “What about the girls?” Among them were community leaders like Nzingha Dugas, who…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Singapore — and possibly the world’s first — silent tea bar empowers the deaf and individuals with mental health issues to seek gainful employment, while bridging the gap between the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Amazon has chosen its initial partners for its foray into healthcare—Berkshire Hathaway, the third largest public company in the world, and JPMorgan Chase, one of the largest banks in the world. Their…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Wellcome funds a wide range of work that explores women’s health, both contemporary and historical, on subjects ranging from research ethics and women’s role in medical training to abortion stigma,…