This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last month, advocates and survivors in the eating disorder community publicly worried that the film’s trailer might glamorize anorexia or include excessive triggering imagery. The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) recommends against showing “dangerous…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Your cells are coated with sugars that store information and speak a secret language. What are they trying to tell us? Your blood type, for one — and, potentially, that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I’ve often wondered why it is that companies of every size and shape, across industries and geographies, take pride in differentiating their brands through supporting research on AIDS, breast cancer,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Madalyn Rose Parker tweeted a screenshot of an email exchange with her boss a couple of weeks ago, she didn’t expect it to go viral. “I’m taking today and tomorrow to focus…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last month, in a government building in Maryland, I put on virtual reality headset and got a glimpse of the future of medicine. That virtual reality model is just one…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Health insurance companies have long recognized the value of partnering with non-profit organizations to address health outcomes for their clients. If payers can support programs that keep their clients from…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Establishing a roadmap to interoperability and care continuity Interoperability of electronic health records (EHR) has long been a topic of discussion in healthcare, and is necessary to better enable workflow…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Children’s mental health is one of the most important and most misunderstood issues in our national healthcare debate. Today, mental health care represents 38 percent of children’s Medicaid spending, which…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Inventing the first app in the world to be approved as a contraceptive started as a hobby project for Elina Berglund Scherwitzl. The nuclear physicist, who’d been working on the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Clinical trials underway at Fred Hutch and elsewhere of CAR T cells for cancer have shown promising early results. These still-experimental therapies genetically reprogram a patient’s own T cells —…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Biochemist Joe DeRisi talks about amazing new ways to diagnose viruses (and treat the illnesses they cause) using DNA. His work may help us understand malaria, SARS, avian flu —…
Seth Berkley explains how smart advances in vaccine design, production and distribution are bringing us closer than ever to eliminating a host of global threats — from AIDS to malaria…