It’s time to end our ‘separate but unequal’ approach to mental health
Increases in deaths by suicide and drug overdose are playing a part in America's declining life expectancy. We must stop treating mental health as separate from physical health.
Here's how Iceland radically cut teenage drug use
The relationship between people and the state has allowed an effective national programme to cut the rates of teenagers smoking and drinking to excess.
Big data has transformed how we do science
Modern biologists have skills their older colleagues never needed, including coding and the ability to work with vast amounts of data.
This is the hidden problem women health-care volunteers are facing
Women health-care volunteers in low-income countries such as Afghanistan, Nepal and Ethiopia play a vital role in the health-care system, yet they are undervalued and under trained. Many ...
How can we age healthily?
As populations age, our view of what it means to become older will have to change.
This surgeon runs a makeshift hospital for over 200,000 people
Meet the only surgeon at a South Sudan hospital which serves a population of more than 200,000 people, many of whom are refugees fleeing civil conflict.
These scientists wiped out a mosquito population by hacking their DNA
The researchers used CRISPR to modify the gene responsible for determining sex in 150 male mosquitoes.
How we can work together in the fight against NCDs
The WHO wants to reduce premature mortality from non-communicable diseases by 25% by 2025 – and the private sector has a part to play.
Meet the scientists searching for the causes of cancer
DNA researchers are working to identify the causes of certain strains of cancer.
India's PM Narendra Modi has launched health insurance for 100 million families
The scheme will provide around 500 million poor people with health cover of 500,000 rupees per year.
Two paralysed people can now walk again thanks to this revolutionary new treatment
Researchers have created a spinal implant to stimulate the electrical signals coming from the brain.
Do we really need eight hours of uninterrupted sleep a night?
Our modern sleep patterns are very different to those of our ancestors, so is eight hours of unbroken sleep a night the right model?