Health

Beats: Disability

"Disable" is an active verb, and disability describes the social and environmental barriers that prevent access just as much as an...
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Oct 30, 2018 37 sec read

We Need More Than Technology to Eliminate Tuberculosis

The factors governing investments in strengthening countries' health care systems are incredibly complex, stretching across finance, infrastructure, education, and many other...
Paula Akugizibwe
Sep 25, 2018 10 min read

Body Hacking Has a Place in Hospitals

Instead of bedroom surgeons risking sepsis, medical researchers are using augmentation to make hospital wards more, not less, human.
Andrew Williams
Sep 21, 2018 5 min read

The Exploitative History of One of the World’s Deadliest Diseases

Tuberculosis, one of the oldest diseases on the planet, remains the leading cause of death from an infectious agent. The reasons...
Paula Akugizibwe
Sep 19, 2018 12 min read

Is Your Fertility Data For Sale?

Could the sexual history information collected by period trackers be used by governments, corporations, or legal professionals to control or persecute...
Sian Williams Page
Aug 2, 2018 4 min read

Measuring Global Health with the DALY

A better statistic would balance both death and disability, weighting factors like duration of illness, severity of disability, distribution across a...
Duncan Geere
May 31, 2018 2 min read

Your Pandemics Questions Answered

Vulnerable individuals should always have a flu vaccination at the appropriate time of the year–outside of the grip of a pandemic,...
Duncan Geere
Nov 10, 2017 5 min read

Outbreak

If an enterprising bookmaker decided to offer odds on which apocalyptic event is most likely to wipe out the human race,...
Simon Parkin
Oct 6, 2017 10 min read

Evolution

Anyone entering the virological laboratory, one of the most highly regarded in Europe, was subject to a security check. Workers were...
Simon Parkin
Sep 22, 2017 8 min read

The Machine and the Mosquito

According to the World Health Organization, there were 212 million new cases of malaria worldwide in 2015, 90 percent of which...
Greg Noone
Sep 15, 2017 10 min read
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