This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We spend more than 2/3rds of our time where we live; thus, housing and neighborhood conditions invariably affect our individual and family’s well-being. The health impacts from blighted properties—substandard housing,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Senate health-care bill is not definitively dead, but it’s unmistakably ailing—and the prognosis is not promising. Still, Republicans have to do something. Obamacare in its present form does bear…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When thousands of cancer researchers from around the world gather in Chicago this weekend for the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual meeting, drugs that fight tumors by boosting a…
Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world’s biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he asks us to consider…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. New research studies conducted by Special Olympics found disturbing evidence that individuals with intellectual disabilities face widespread health problems, while physicians, dentists, and other health professionals are not receiving adequate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2005, Sir Ken Robinson, then Chair of the British government’s Report on Creativity, Education, and the Economy, publicized research that showed that young people lose their ability to think…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen has surpassed 100,000 people, the World Health Organization said Thursday, marking an outbreak that the United Nations has dubbed “unprecedented” in scale.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. AARP conducted a study of 40+ adults across the United States to understand the factors that influence social engagement, isolation, loneliness and social network size among older adults. The study…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. …Those who think that analytics on big health data can save the US healthcare system are basically saying that the distance between the little red dot and the big blue…
Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe is outwitting the next pandemic by staying two steps ahead: discovering deadly new viruses where they first emerge — passing from animals to humans among poor…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. People who have any kind of medical condition are at the heart of the debate over repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. About a quarter of adults under 65…
Jimmy Lin is developing technologies to catch cancer months to years before current methods. He shares a breakthrough technique that looks for small signals of cancer’s presence via a simple…