This World AIDS Day, we celebrate astounding progress made in the past 15 years! Thanks to PEPFAR— the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief—14.6 million people living with HIV (59%) have access to antiretroviral therapy, 2.4 million babies h…
In 2017, health officials found the Haemaphysalis longicornis in New Jersey. Now this invasive species has spread to at least 9 states.
A genetic counselor takes a direct-to-consumer test focused on ancestry. The ancestry results are accurate, but the lines between real data and genutainment are blurred, and the privacy of family members is compromised, and without their consent.
Athletes and their coaches are increasingly using smart wearables to track athlete performance both during athlete selection and training. In this article we discuss five wearable devices companies that are tracking athlete performance across a variety…
In what may come as a surprise to no one, researchers from NYU’s School of Medicine and its Perlmutter Cancer Center have found that it’s a bad idea to get your medical advice from YouTube.
The CDC issued a report yesterday about a newly identified tick species that has the ability to spread dangerous diseases to people and animals.
Yesterday, some of the top minds in healthcare gathered near Columbus Circle in Manhattan for the seventh annual Forbes Healthcare Summit. Here are some highlights.
We still don’t know much about the mysterious polio-resembling illness that flares up every two years, but a new study brings us one step closer.
Amazon’s plan to democratize the ability to extract medical information from historical data is a game-changer. Compared to Google, Microsoft and Apple’s focus on building their own closed personal health record ecosystem, Amazon chooses to deliver a m…
Nobel Prize winner, Venki Ramakrishnan, has written an engaging and witty memoir about his contributions to the discovery of the structure of the ribosome, telling a story that highlights how science actually works
