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July 17, 2019
The evidence on travel bans for diseases like Ebola is clear: they don't work
Studies show viruses manage to cross borders, no matter how hard governments try to stop them.
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December 7, 2015
Let's stop pretending peer review works
Peer review is "often insulting, usually ignorant, occasionally foolish, and frequently wrong." Here's how to fix it.
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May 22, 2015
When disasters like Ebola hit, the world turns to the WHO. And it’s failing.
This week, leaders of the global health world met in Geneva to talk about WHO reform. Despite the urgency brought on by Ebola, it's not clear that anything will actually change.
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May 13, 2015
Science is often flawed. It's time we embraced that.
Why all of the attention on how science is broken is actually a good thing for science.
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April 30, 2015
America's brutal black-white health gap
For years, researchers have been gathering evidence about a disturbing and persistent gap in health care and outcomes between black and white Americans.
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April 23, 2015
All of the arguments Dr. Oz made against his critics were wrong
Instead of addressing his critics head on, Oz just wants to talk about his freedom of speech.
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March 24, 2015
What all patients can learn from Angelina Jolie
The actress should be applauded for describing the benefits, costs, risks of harm, and trade-offs of her decision to get preventive surgeries for cancer.
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March 11, 2015
Don't just Google your health questions. Use these sites instead.
If you're going to self-diagnose on the Web, there are better resources than Dr. Google and WebMD.
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February 19, 2015
There's a superbug outbreak in California. But it's really a global problem
3 steps to fixing the crisis in antibiotic resistance.
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January 28, 2015
Inside the international effort to fund government programs that actually work
We spoke to civil servants in the UK, the US and Canada to figure out why — or why not — national governments were using science to inform their decision making.
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January 5, 2015
The one chart you need to understand any health study
Today's study is just the latest word and must be interpreted in context of others.
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December 23, 2014
5 health challenges the world will face in 2015
Drug-resistant infections, Ebola, and fixing a broken clinical trials system are among the big ones.
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October 17, 2014
Why travel bans will only make the Ebola epidemic worse
The argument against airport screening and travel restrictions in a time of Ebola.
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October 1, 2014
Why we fail at stopping outbreaks like Ebola
What we can learn from the world's worst Ebola epidemic that we didn't learn from the SARS and H1N1 swine flu scares.
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September 30, 2014
What's really driving the Ebola outbreak
A broken global-health innovation system is at the root of this and future outbreaks.