America’s Health Segregation ProblemMay 23, 2016 |
Has the country done enough to overcome its Jim Crow health care history?
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Can Citizen Science Empower Disenfranchised Communities?January 27, 2016 |
Flint, Michigan residents couldn’t get answers about their water – so they did their own research. Andrew Maynard on citizens setting the science agenda
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These Scientists Have a Plan to Make Ebola Research More AffordableJanuary 12, 2016 |
A group led by researchers at the Toronto General Research Institute and Canadian Blood Services have tested a combination of drugs on Ebola, and published their findings in the Journal of Neglected Diseases. Anyone who has kept even one eye on the news would not consider Ebola “neglected,” but this team argues that it is—not due to lack of interest, but due to lack of access to the correct facilities
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India Is Training Quacks to do Real Medicine. This Is WhyNovember 3, 2015 |
Priyanka Pulla asks if there can ever be legitimacy in ‘quackery’
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In the last 18 months, Africa’s healthcare system and issues have come under the spotlight due the world’s worst Ebola outbreak. According to the World Health Organization, the virus has led to the deaths of around 11,000 people but Africa has an even more rampant disease with which it continues to contend: malaria
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Jane Goodall has learned a lot about chimpanzees in her 55 years of studying them. She has learned a lot from them, too. And she’s putting those lessons into practice. That’s what she explains after giving a lecture at the U.S. State Department
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Ever wondered how a few companies — namely Coca-Cola and PepsiCo — created multibillion-dollar empires marketing flavored sugar water? Nutrition scholar Marion Nestle, one of the most dogged chroniclers of the U.S. food industry and its politics, did. She was intrigued by the power of Big Soda and how it’s responding to flat sales in the US
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Reservoir Dogs and Furious RabiesAugust 25, 2015 |
Mosaic: The WHO wants to eliminate rabies in Asia by 2020. But how, when rabid dogs are running India ragged? Mary-Rose Abraham reports
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