Category: 5. Health

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plans to open an office in Singapore as it seeks to deepen collaborations with governments, philanthropies and health research institutions across Southeast Asia.

“The Gates Foundation is putting up an office…

Evolution has fostered many reproductive strategies across the spectrum of life. From dandelions to giraffes, nature finds a way.

One of those ways creates quite a bit of suffering for humans: pollen, the infamous male gametophyte of the plant kingdom.

In the Southeastern U.S., where I…

Where you work affects your risk of dying by suicide. For example, loggers, musicians and workers in the oil and gas industries have much higher rates of suicide than the rest of the population.

But on the flip side, some professions have very low rates of suicide. One of them is…

In a move that could dramatically reshape the landscape for rare disease treatments, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has announced plans to create a new pathway for drugs targeting rare conditions. This announcement signals a potential paradigm shift in how the…

On March 4, Christopher Syrek, the Chief of Staff of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), informed his senior colleagues of a DOGE-devised plan for large-scale cutbacks at the agency that provides health care and…

In healthcare, what’s often hailed as groundbreaking is, in reality, a repackaging of ideas we’ve seen before.

Over the past two decades, I’ve watched…

Burkitt lymphoma, a cancer that impacts a subset of immune cells called B cells, develops most often in children and young adults.  Patients with Burkitt lymphoma exhibit elevated levels of a protein called activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID),…