Christine Ro, Contributor

The policy will lead to more abortions of the dangerous, medically unsupervised, barbaric kind, which cause up to 13% of maternal deaths. After all, affected women won’t have access to broader family planning that could keep abortion off the table.

We won’t be able to effectively combat tuberculosis, which kills at least 1.3 million people a year, without improving diagnosis. One promising diagnostic tool is a painless microneedle patch being developed by Thai researchers.

Soil treatment, investments in biodiversity, climate change mitigation, improved food handling, crowdsourced science, and more.

Instead of conventional meat-based models, students from the Malawi Polytechnic and Rice University have designed gel-based models of the cervix that are substantially cheaper, more portable, and frankly more palatable.

the Trump administration and the anti-poverty NGO Oxfam have found themselves making the same big-picture point recently: medicines are too damn expensive. And a key part of the problem is the lack of consistent information about drug pricing.

A massive study, published in October in The Lancet, projects figures for nearly all causes of death in 2040. Clearly, where you live has a huge impact on what’s likely to kill or ail you, and when.