This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Diagnosing a concussion can sometimes be a guessing game, but clues taken from small molecules in saliva may be able to help diagnose and predict the duration of concussions in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. By 2030 diseases associated with wealth will kill more people in sub-Saharan Africa than diseases associated with poverty. The sharp increase in diseases linked to lifestyle, or noncommunicable diseases (NDCs), is putting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In Somaliland, cholera is a symptom of drought. Rainy seasons in the Horn of Africa have disappointed for three consecutive years, now heading into the fourth. As crops fail, livestock…
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. Almost 21 million people around the world are now getting life-prolonging AIDS drugs, according to a report issued on Monday. But another 16 million people infected with H.I.V. are not…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Two prominent U.S. senators have called on the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Inspector General to conduct an inquiry into USAID’s largest-ever contract, a $9.5 billion project managed by Chemonics…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Senate will include repeal of Obamacare’s individual mandate in its final tax bill. The individual mandate is Obamacare’s requirement that every American enroll in health insurance or be fined.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Overused toilets line the steep embankments of Kutupalong refugee camp. Sagging bamboo and tarpaulin emergency latrines balance precariously near steep drop-offs; others sit dangerously near water sources. Some have been…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Tuberculosis will cost the world economy close to $1 trillion in lost economic output by 2030, unless countries step up efforts to fight the disease, according to a report launched…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2013 nearly 800 million people were living under the international poverty line.[1] This has a huge negative impact on health[2] – each year, millions of these people die from preventable diseases…
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…