How much progress has the world made against hunger? The question seems easy. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the…
Stigma, misinformation and poverty all conspire against women suffering from breast cancer, reports Denise Grady for the New York Times.…
What if addicts were not really addicts? What if they were given other options than drugs? Researcher Dr. Carl Hart…
Despite what some may say, solving the world’s water crisis is not so simple. David Bornstein picks up on a…
As politicians like John McCain and others call for stronger border protections between the US and Mexico, the people who…
Andy Kessler, founder of the billion-dollar Palo Alto investment firm Velocity Capital Management, thinks that homelessness in the United States is…
Here’s the plan. China wants to move 250,000,000 people out of its rural areas and into cities within the next…
Farmer plants rice in the Philippines. Credit: International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Want to change the world? Many tell you…
A cholera outbreak in Sierra Leone that made its way to the capital city of Freetown is spreading at an…
A technological innovation (the iPad) a well designed survey (cluster randomization) and young health workers are the backbone of an…