Basic science meets public health
135 university presidents and chancellors have opened a debate on the minimum legal drinking age in the U.S. Should it be lowered? Researchers say the decades of data make the answer clear as gin.
Can an experimental program in the richest county in one of the richest states influence the nation’s health care reform agenda?
In developing countries, three-quarters of people with mental disorders receive no treatment. How do you deliver inexpensive, effective, science-based care to them? A team of mental health researchers has a few ideas.
Lethal. Wily. Relentless. The influenza virus killed millions of people last century. This century, virologist Andy Pekosz hopes to prevent such pandemics with a universal flu vaccine.
As a "slow-motion genocide" envelops ethnic minorities in eastern Burma, health workers rely on innovative strategies and raw courage to save the lives of mothers and infants.
30,000 Americans die every year from gun violence. How do we prevent this carnage? First, view illegal guns as pollution. Then, go to the source.