Health and Healthcare
Scientists have invented a method to break down 'forever chemicals' in our drinking water. Here’s how
Canadian researchers have developed a method to rid drinking water of harmful PFAS - or ‘forever chemicals’ - which scientists once considered indestructible.
Wellbeing and Mental Health
Young people are becoming unhappier, a new report finds
Global Health
Promoting healthy habit formation is key to improving public health. Here's why
With 70% of deaths worldwide down to four lifestyle behaviours, here's why it's never too late to build healthy habits to improve your overall health.
Health and Healthcare
Why stemming the rise of antibiotic resistance will be an historic achievement
Collaborative efforts to combat antibiotic resistance across human and animal health will mark an era-defining triumph for health cooperation worldwide.
Health and Healthcare
Medical innovation for an aging world: the view from Hong Kong
By 2050 more than 2.1 billion people will be over 60. Hong Kong is confronting this challenge head-on, prioritizing medical innovation for an aging world.
Health and Healthcare
Kidney disease ‘should be global health priority’, plus other top health stories
Top health news: Call to make kidney disease a global health priority; first successful transplant of genetically modified pig kidney; US bird flu alert.
Global Health
A new ‘diverse health database’ has already uncovered millions of new genetic variants. Here’s how it could help create health equity
The US research programme, which includes data from underrepresented communities and ethnic minorities, aims to fight disease and achieve health equity.
Health and Healthcare
How fintech in LMICs can inspire the digital healthcare revolution
Fintech has revolutionized financial access in low- and medium-income countries and mobile technologies look set to similarly transform digital healthcare.
Health and Healthcare
Could private provision be the key to delivering universal health coverage?
Private non-profit organizations could help achieve the global goal of universal health coverage by broadening provision and centring primary care.
Health and Healthcare
This gene-editing technology lets scientists cut HIV out of cells
Agriculture, Food and Beverage
5 ways CRISPR gene editing is shaping the future of food and health
CRISPR is a gene editing technique used to increase food production and tackle disease. But it has also heightened concerns around genetic modification.
Global Health
Child deaths have reached a historic low – but there's still much more to do
Fewer under-fives are dying each year than ever before, but ingrained inequalities mean survival rates across the world vary hugely.