This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. FasterCures’ second Partnering for Cures of 2017 closed with a discussion of the new generation of philanthropists pledging their funds to help solve some of humankind’s most pressing health challenges. The conversation covered…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Parasitic worm infections disproportionately affect people living in poverty, especially those who are difficult to reach with mass drug administration. Evidence Action is committed to supporting innovations that enable treatment…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. How is thalidomide—the drug that resulted in over 10,000 children with birth defects—related to Alzheimer’s? Once a scandal that rocked the health care world, thalidomide can now be viewed as a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For the past few decades, one of the biggest points of order for major health and philanthropic groups including the WHO, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the UN, and the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A recent essay published in JAMA recounts the competing pulls physicians must reconcile while practicing with one foot in the fee-for-service world, and the other in the value-based, accountable care…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Inside the Gift of Life Donor Program’s headquarters in Philadelphia is a room that serves as a sort of mission control for organ donation. Three rows of desks face a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. An anonymous donor has made a staggering $100-million gift to Toronto’s Center for Addiction and Mental Health. “I’m happy to say that CAMH will now have the opportunity to animate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite advances in medicine and massive increases in spending in America over the last several decades, there hasn’t been a corresponding improvement in health outcomes. One major reason for this is that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Patient-centered care initiatives often aim to increase patients’ health literacy, encourage them to participate more actively in treatment decisions, and create a less stressful care delivery environment for them. Increasingly,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As part of our “Americans in the UN” project to share the stories of Americans who work for the United Nations, we talked to Stephen Anderson, the World Food Programme…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Imagine this: You’re dropped into the middle of a country where you don’t understand the language at all — and, as hard as you try, you can’t learn even the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Could a prostate cancer drug save lives from the deadly radiation of a nuclear blast? That’s an open question now thanks to the results of a new study using a…