This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A recent announcement that WHO has prequalified the first conjugate vaccine for typhoid offers a major boost to prevention efforts against a disease that causes 11–20 million cases annually and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2011, Kimbal Musk, co-founder of the Kitchen (and brother of tech giant Elon Musk), decided it wasn’t enough serving real, local food at his family of restaurants. So he launched the Kitchen Community nonprofit…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Delhi, India, which is experiencing some of the worst air pollution it has ever seen. Very fine particulate matter, known as PM2.5—for the particle size in microns—is the most dangerous…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After a rocky start, the $108 million Global Health Investment Fund has made its 10th investment, leading a $10 million financing for Vienna-based Themis Bioscience, which has made good progress…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After rapid decreases in the burden of disease in the developing world since 2000, funding for global health treatment and research has plateaued or is in decline. Meanwhile, the World…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. By any metric, opioid-related overdoses in the United States have reached epidemic proportions. Many intertwined causes have led to this crisis, from reduced access to substance-abuse treatment, to increased unemployment spurring use of prescription opioids, to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In May, a Trump administration appointee to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) toxic chemical unit directed the rewriting of rules on toxic chemicals that would make tracking their health risks…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. According to a June 2017 poll, Americans agree by a 60-to-39 margin that the federal government bears a responsibility to ensure health care for all Americans; 33% said that they…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nearly 25 years ago, legendary college basketball coach and broadcaster Jim “Jimmy V” Valvano delivered his stirring and emotional speech at the first-ever ESPY Awards in 1993. Despite being weakened from…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. By 2050, the world’s population is expected to rise to over 9 billion, with 2 billion people above the age of 60. Governments have agreed on a very ambitious set…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Palliative care services are seriously lacking in Africa. Nineteen percent of African countries do not have identified palliative services and 71 percent of the services that do exist are concentrated in Uganda,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Attending medical school is a costly venture. In order to help some medical students avoid debt, former Merck CEO Roy Vagelos and his wife Diana gave $250 million to Columbia…