Neal Emery

Neal Emery is a Chicago-based writer who focuses on public health. He works for GlobeMed, a nonprofit that partners college students and community health organizations to complete public health projects.

Rwanda's Historic Health Recovery: What the U.S. Might Learn

Rwanda's Historic Health Recovery: What the U.S. Might Learn

Over the last decade in Rwanda, deaths from HIV, TB, and malaria dropped by 80 percent. More »

How the World Gets Sick and Dies

How the World Gets Sick and Dies

The results of a project to quantify and understand how human illness is changing on a global scale More »

The 'Condoms' We'll Use on Mars

The 'Condoms' We'll Use on Mars

New super-thin mesh has the potential to be inserted into a woman's vagina to provide barely detectable contraception and HIV protection for several days. More »

How the Recession Improved Life Expectancy—but Didn't Make Us Healthier

How the Recession Improved Life Expectancy—but Didn't Make Us Healthier

The recent economy robbed Americans of insurance, exacerbated psychological stress, and, paradoxically, saw fewer people die. More »

Our Unsustainable Culture of Medical Specialization

Our Unsustainable Culture of Medical Specialization

Not only do patients with multiple chronic diseases receive overall suboptimal care, but their disjointed care results in redundancies and inefficiencies that put disproportionate pressure on our health care system. More »

The Global Diabetes Epidemic, Brought to You by Global Development

The Global Diabetes Epidemic, Brought to You by Global Development

The economic link between the global diabetes epidemic and developing countries, explained More »

How to Diagnose a Battered Brain Before It's Too Late

How to Diagnose a Battered Brain Before It's Too Late

High-impact activities like football are known to cause creeping brain damage that can't easily be detected until after death. But promising research may give rise to new methods of diagnosing chronic traumatic encephalopathy. More »

No, a Universal Cancer Vaccine Was Not Just Developed

No, a Universal Cancer Vaccine Was Not Just Developed

While a recent media report was more hype than science, it did focus on a promising pathway for cancer treatments. More »

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