Gabriel Filippelli – Chancellor’s Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director, Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute, IUPUI People fishing along the banks of the White River as it winds …
Health
How mRNA and DNA vaccines could soon treat cancers, HIV, autoimmune disorders and genetic diseases
Deborah Fuller – Professor of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington The two most successful coronavirus vaccines developed in the U.S. – the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines – are …
Jennifer Rooke – Assistant Professor of Community Health & Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine One of my patients – who had been struggling with obesity, uncontrolled diabetes and the …
Jane Namukobe – Lecturer, Makerere University Herbal medicine is used all over the world, and Uganda is no exception. Figures suggest that up to 79% of the East African nation’s population favours …
Lisa D. Tinsley Urban gardens are transforming cities around the world. Urban and peri-urban farms supply food to about 700 million city dwellers — one-quarter of the world’s urban population …
Jeffrey R. Aeschlimann – Associate Professor of Pharmacy, University of Connecticut Ivermectin is an over 30-year-old wonder drug that treats life- and sight-threatening parasitic infections. Its lasting influence on global health has …
Kidney Experts Say It’s Time to Remove Race From Medical Algorithms. Doing So Is Complicated.
By Rae Ellen Bichell and Cara Anthony Alphonso Harried recently came across a newspaper clipping about his grandfather receiving his 1,000th dialysis treatment. His grandfather later died — at a dialysis center — …
The tipping point for Dr. Paula Braveman came when a longtime patient of hers at a community clinic in San Francisco’s Mission District slipped past the front desk and knocked …
How to make comparing prices of an MRI or colonoscopy as easy as shopping for a new laptop
Morgan Henderson – Senior Data Scientist, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Morgane Mouslim – Policy Analyst, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Health researchers have long argued that the key to reining in surging …
Katelyn Jetelina – Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston A year and a half into what the World Health Organization officially declared a pandemic on March …
