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The Next Zika
Vaccines are most helpful before an epidemic hits. So which diseases should researchers prepare for next?
ResearchKit
A software platform from Apple is helping medical researchers collect health data from any iPhone user
Unsound the Alarm
Hundreds of alarms compete for a clinician's attention. Can less noise mean better care?
Born Too Soon
Despite steady declines over the past decade, the U.S. still has one of the highest preterm birthrates in the developed world.
20 Years After Apartheid
In the 1980s physician Miguel Ribeiro took stunning photographs of his South African patients. How has the nation’s health care fared in the years since?
From MRI to Bronze Sculpture
Artists use medical scans of tumors to make stunning, informative sculptures
Imperfect 10
Often ridiculed, ICD-10 may relieve some diagnostic and billing headaches. But implementation will bring complications.
A New Epidemic Model
SARS led to the discovery of "super-spreaders," who can infect dozens of people. They also exist, it appears, in other infectious diseases.
The Rise of Medical School Debt
The soaring cost of medical school may be driving graduates away from primary care and into high-paying specialty practices.
Making Up Disaster
All the terrifying world's a stage, and artists borrow tools of the theater to give models in drills remarkably lifelike wounds and burns.
Just Doing Their Jobs
When two bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon, a painstakingly rehearsed emergency response plan sprang into action.
A Premium on Gender
Insurers attribute higher premiums for women than men of the same age because of the increased cost of women’s care.
Counting the Losses
New York City’s medical research community picks up the pieces after Hurricane Sandy destroys decades of work.
Going Airborne
A computer model reveals why some airports might be better spreaders of contagious disease than others.
Efficiency for ORs
Hospitals around the nation have adopted ways to help alleviate delays in operating rooms.
The New Gene Pool
Sage Bionetworks, a nonprofit research organization, encourages collaboration and the exchange of ideas among scientists.
The Genome’s Dark Matter
From architecture to function, the ENCODE project’s researchers are filling in the gaps in our understanding of human genetics.
A Beautiful Mind
Employing ingenuity, technology and an artist's eye, scientists interpret and elucidate the brain's stunning complexity.
Cheating the System
From mishandled stolen shipments to repackaged fakes to scammers diluting medications, there are multiple ways phony pharmaceuticals get in the supply chain.
Cataloguing Environmental Toxins
From lead to mercury to trichloromethane, we’re awash in chemicals, but researchers are still trying understand how our exposure affects us.
