Scientists have discovered that astronauts on both short and long space flights show increased levels of herpes virus in their urine and saliva samples.

Matthew Prior · Frontiers 25 Mar 2019

Future of Health and Healthcare

Why we need a new social contract for data in healthcare

With advances in data collection, information technology and data science in the 21st century, the prospects of targeted disease prevention and precision healthcare have become a reality ...

Peter Mills and Jennifer Miller 21 Mar 2019

Environment and Natural Resource Security

Our poisonous air is harming our children’s brains

Nine out of 10 people globally breathe polluted air. And the impact on the developing brains of under-fives threatens to reverse decades of progress on improving child health.

Douglas Broom 20 Mar 2019

Ageing

For the first time ever there are more people over 65 than under 5

The data point is part of a broader trend with widespread consequences for productivity, inflation, and global growth, economists warn.

Rebecca Ungarino · Business Insider 19 Mar 2019

Healthcare Delivery

Hospital disinfectants should be regulated like antibiotics new study suggests

Recent studies suggest that we need to reconsider the way we use disinfectants in hospitals in much the same way we regulate the use of antibiotics to reduce antimicrobial resistance.

Karolin Hijazi · The Conversation 18 Mar 2019

Education, Gender and Work

Free tampons in schools are not enough to end period poverty say British charities

More must be done to dispel the shame and ignorance surrounding menstruation in Britain, charities said on Wednesday, after the government promised free sanitary products in English schools.

Adela Suliman · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 18 Mar 2019

Healthcare Delivery

Four lessons for a successful switch to value-based healthcare

We know value-based healthcare works - but we also know that achieving it is difficult. Here are four lessons learned that can speed up and simplify successful healthcare delivery transfo...

Fred Horne, Gregory Katz, and Gabriel Seidman 18 Mar 2019

Healthcare Delivery

Women tend to be diagnosed with disease later than men

On average, women get diagnoses later in their lives than men when they contract a disease, a new study in Denmark suggests.

Cecilie Krabbe · Futurity 15 Mar 2019

Future of Health and Healthcare

Why AI will make healthcare personal

Harnessing artificial intelligence to analyze DNA and streamline treatments will usher in an age of bespoke medicine.

Peter Schwartz 14 Mar 2019

Africa

Mali just took a huge step towards universal healthcare

Mali’s introduction of free healthcare for under fives and pregnant women may offer a blueprint for other African states to follow.

Douglas Broom 13 Mar 2019

Future of Health and Healthcare

A trip to the front lines of the fight against Ebola

A look inside the $17,000 facilities at the heart of the Ebola crisis, being used to treat and quarantine patients in DRC.

The World Bank · World Bank 12 Mar 2019

Environment and Natural Resource Security

How the Great White Shark's genes may help to fight cancer

The Great White Shark's genome may hold the key to tackling disease in humans in a new way - and for the first time scientists have successfully sequenced the whole thing.

Aylin Woodward · Business Insider 21 Feb 2019

Global Health

Access to healthcare is not enough – high quality care has to be the target

Research shows poor quality care in low and middle-income countries is probably killing more people than having no access to care at all

Harald Nusser 13 Feb 2019

Future of Health and Healthcare

Here’s how to make 'value-based healthcare' a reality

Powerful data analytics are paving the way to a more patient-centric and productive healthcare system

Jan Kimpen 12 Feb 2019

Global Health

Most women give birth in hospital – but it’s got more to do with World War II than health

From 90% of all births in 1930 to 0.9% in 1980, the decline of home births is one of the more surprising effects of World War Two on the UK.

Carly-Emma Leachman · The Conversation 12 Feb 2019

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