Medicine and health research without the hype. We explain what a new approval or study actually changes, who it affects, and what is still unknown.
Fifty years after Ebola was identified, Congo's deadliest outbreak has reached Kenya, and the vaccine being used against it was designed for a different strain. The gap shows how the world's Ebola tools came to stop at the edge of one species.
A law that made animal tests optional, a headline that said they were over, and the quiet regulatory machinery that actually decides what counts as proof.
The first approved CRISPR therapy is now available to toddlers with sickle cell disease. It works — and it costs more than most American homes. That tension is the real story.