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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Global Diabetes Epidemic, Brought to You by Global Development
The economic link between the global diabetes epidemic and developing countries, explained
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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.
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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.
