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How Air Pollution Affects Our Global Health

People have to breath to live. Air pollution can make that a problem.
A new study from the University of British Colombia found that more than 5.5 million people will ...

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Why India Needs Its Quack Doctors.

Toward the end of last year, reports emerged that the Liver Foundation, a health NGO in India’s West Bengal state, had started working with local quack doctors. The t...

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Coming Soon: Mother Of All Health Schemes

The health ministry plans to roll out a centrally sponsored 'Health Protection Scheme' which will replace several of the existing government-supported health schemes includ...

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Melinda Gates: Let’s Put Birth Control Back On The Agenda

The topic has become controversial in recent years. But should it be? Melinda Gates believes that many of the world’s social change issues depend on ensuring that wom...

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Year In Review: 2015 In 12 Charts

Now that we’ve reached the end of 2015, it’s clear this was a year of major milestones, emerging trends, and new beginnings. Among other things, 2015 marked a h...

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Year In Review: 2015 In 12 Charts

Now that we?ve reached the end of 2015, it?s clear this was a year of major milestones, emerging trends, and new beginnings. Among other things, 2015 marked a historic drop...

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Kiran Mazumdar Shaw: Life Science Developments To Look Out For In 2016

These are exciting times for the life sciences sector as it builds on its understanding of the disease at the cellular and genetic level to usher in new and differentiated ...

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The Top 6 Good-News Stories of 2015

This is a tough time to feel optimistic about the future. With the notable exception of impressive global cooperation on climate change and energy, our papers and screens h...

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The World?? Most Underestimated Disease

The dirt roads are dusty in the summer and a quagmire when it starts to rain. The gutters, few and far between, fill up quickly with milky, putrid water. Khayelitsha, the s...

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Power Of Nutrition: The $1 Billion Startup

Nutrition has a color. Alethea Dopart had brand colors on her mind — “you usually see greens, yellows, sometimes orange” — as she guided me through ...

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